Community-level women's education and undernutrition among Indian adolescents: A multilevel analysis of a national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little research has explored the influence of social context on health of Indian adolescents. We conceptualized community-level women's education (proxy for value placed on women's wellbeing) as exerting contextual influence on adolescent hemoglobin level and body mass index (BMI).

Methods

We derived our sample of more than 62,000 adolescent aged 15 through 17 years from the Indian National Family Health Survey 2015-16. The sample consisted of a total of 62648 adolescents (54232 girls and 8416 boys) for the hemoglobin, and 62846 adolescents (54383 girls and 8463 boys) for the BMI analysis. We fitted multilevel random intercepts linear regression models to test the association of village- and urban-ward-level-women's education with hemoglobin level and BMI of adole

SUBMITTER: Shah AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8136857 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature