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Education is the antidote: Individual- and community-level effects of maternal education on childhood immunizations in Nigeria

Authored by:

Burroway, R., Hargrove, A.

Full Citation:

Burroway, R., Hargrove, A. 2018. Education is the antidote: Individual- and community-level effects of maternal education on childhood immunizations in Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine. 213.

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Additional key concepts from this publication:

Studies have shown that maternal education is significantly associated with immunization coverage for themselves and for their children.

Key Evidence: Maternal education benefits immunization rates of all community members, not only mothers’ own children. In Nigeria, children’s odds of being fully immunized improved by 1.06 times for every additional year of education the mothers received. Children’s odds of being fully immunized increased by 1.2 times for each additional year of maternal education in the community.

From the VoICE Editors: The authors controlled for factors including maternal employment, average household wealth, whether the child was born in a hospital, urban status of communities, and geographic location of communities.