The health knowledge mechanism: evidence on the link between education and health lifestyle in the Philippines

Hoffmann, Roman; Lutz, Sebastian Uljas

doi:10.1007/s10198-017-0950-2

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“…In the estimation of the GPS, we closely followed the procedures outlined in Hirano and Imbens (2004) and Kluve et al (2012). Further information on the estimation of the GPS as well as the tests of the central assumptions can be found in the supplementary material (S2) and in Hoffmann and Lutz (2019).…”

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Greening through schooling: understanding the link between education and pro-environmental behavior in the Philippines

Hoffmann

Muttarak

2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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In recent years, changing lifestyle, consumption and mobility patterns have contributed to a global rise in greenhouse gases responsible for the warming of the planet. Despite its increasing relevance, there is a lack of understanding of factors influencing the environmental behavior of people from emerging economies. In this study, we focus on the role of formal education for pro-environmental behavior in the Philippines and study three potentially underlying mechanisms explaining the education effects: differential knowledge about climate change, risk perceptions, and awareness. Whilst there is some evidence showing that education is associated with pro-environmental behavior, little is known about the actual mechanisms through which it influences decision-making. Using propensity score methods, we find that an additional year of schooling significantly increases the probability of pro-environmental actions, e.g. planting trees, recycling, and proper waste management, by 3.3%. Further decomposing the education effects, it is found that education influences behavior mainly by increasing awareness about the anthropogenic causes of climate change, which may consequently affect the perception of selfefficacy in reducing human impacts on the environment. Knowledge and perceptions about climate risks also explain the education effect on pro-environmental behavior, but to a lesser extent.

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Greening through schooling: understanding the link between education and pro-environmental behavior in the Philippines

Hoffmann

Muttarak

2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Moreover, we included intervention and control groups, both of which were willing to watch the film and, therefore, were likely to have similar levels of motivation. It is known that parents with lower levels of education are more likely to drop out; they might have lower levels of health literacy and be less healthy than parents with higher levels of education (31,32). Thus, to minimize selection bias, we analyzed groups with similar motivation Table 3 Parental oral health knowledge scores at baseline, post-intervention and follow-up measurement in the intervention group and Cohen's d effect sizes Table 4 Proportion of correct answers on oral health knowledge items of the questionnaire for the intervention (post-intervention measurement) and the control group measurement to watch the film.…”

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Effectiveness of a short web‐based film targeting parental oral health knowledge in a well‐child care setting

Verlinden

Schuller

Verrips

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European J Oral Sciences

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Effectiveness of a short web-based film targeting parental oral health knowledge in a well-child care setting Verlinden DA, Schuller AA, Verrips GHW, Reijneveld SA. Effectiveness of a short web-based film targeting parental oral health knowledge in a well-child care setting. Eur J Oral Sci 2020; 128: 226-232.Young children rely on their parents with respect to oral health routines. However, parental knowledge on this topic is often insufficient. Well-child care may be an excellent route to reach parents because almost all of them attend. To evaluate the effectiveness of an 8.5 min web-based film about oral health, provided by well-child care, a non-blinded quasi-experimental study was performed. Parents attending well-child care clinics in the Netherlands were assigned to an intervention (n = 88) or control group (n = 41). The control group received care as usual. We measured parental knowledge of oral health with a questionnaire (range of scores 1-12) before and directly after the intervention, and 6 months later, and assessed differences between the intervention and the control group. Parental oral health knowledge improved after watching the film: the intervention group's mean score of 11.1 (SD 1.3) was greater than the mean score of 7.1 (SD 2.0) of the control group (Cohen's d = 2.64). Scores remained higher in the intervention group 6 months after watching the film (mean 9.1, SD 1.3) than before (Cohen's d = 1.25). A web-based educational film delivered in a well-child care setting can be an effective way to address oral health and to improve parental knowledge.

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“…Education is a well-recognized measurement of socioeconomic status, and respondents with higher education usually could afford to pay for more expensive fuel (e.g., coal with less sulfur) or central heating system so that pollution is to a greater or lower extent avoided. In addition, there is evidence of education as an indicator of health knowledge [ 29 ]. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were reported in all the regressions.…”

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Household heating associated with disability in activities of daily living among Chinese middle-aged and elderly: a longitudinal study

Wang

Granados

2020

Environ Health Prev Med

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Background: The health hazards of indoor air pollution are well-established but studies of the health effects due to pollution from heating are rare. This study investigated the association of heating and disability for activities of daily living among Chinese middle-aged and elderly. Methods: We used two consecutive surveys in a cohort of over 17,000 adults aged 45 or older, who were interviewed first in 2011-2012 and then in 2013. In these surveys, taking advantage of random survey time, we applied a random effects logit regression model that included an interaction between pollution-producing heating fuel and a dummy variable, which measured interview time based on whether or not it was heating season. Results: Exposure to pollution-producing heating fuel was associated with a 39.9% (OR 1.399; 95%CI 1.227-1.594) and 71.0% (OR 1.710; 95%CI 1.523-1.920) increase in the likelihood of disability in activities of daily living (DADL) and disability in instrumental activities of daily living (DIADL), respectively. In heating season between year 2011 and 2013, moving from clean heating energy for heating to pollution-producing fuel was linked with an increase in the likelihoods having DADL and DIADL, with the OR of 2.014 (95%CI 1.126-3.600) and 1.956 (95%CI 1.186-3.226), respectively. However, disability increases due to change from clean energy to pollution-producing heating energy did not appear in advantaged education respondents. Conclusions: We found that exposure to heating by burning of coal, wood, or crop residue was associated with disability in performing daily living activities. Health policymakers should take indoor pollution due to heating into consideration as it is a major determinant of activities of daily living in elderly people; especially, such policy should focus on elderly people who have disadvantaged education.

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The health knowledge mechanism: evidence on the link between education and health lifestyle in the Philippines

Cited by 26 publications

References 74 publications

Greening through schooling: understanding the link between education and pro-environmental behavior in the Philippines

Greening through schooling: understanding the link between education and pro-environmental behavior in the Philippines

Effectiveness of a short web‐based film targeting parental oral health knowledge in a well‐child care setting

Household heating associated with disability in activities of daily living among Chinese middle-aged and elderly: a longitudinal study

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