[Health Education impact in Dominican Republic and Hait]

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Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “health education” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “health education” and its relation with “Haiti and Dominican Republic”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “health education” and tries to gauge its effect on “Haiti and Dominican Republic”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “health education” and tries to describe the overall effect of “health education” on “Haiti and Dominican Republic”.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION3

Background of the study5

Problem Statement5

Research Aims and Objectives5

Rationale/ Nature of the study6

Limitations of the Study6

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW7

Haiti in Historical Context7

Unrest Throttles Haiti's Development7

Hurricane Jeanne9

The 2010 Earthquake9

Cholera11

Current Situation11

Culture and Educational Development12

Judgments and Predictions14

Amendments towards Progress14

National Security15

Threat occurring within the country15

Terrorism16

Human Security18

Human Rights18

The Human Development Index20

Overall aid bought to Haiti23

Health and Haiti25

Water and Sanitation26

Food and Hunger26

Environmental Factors27

Healthcare Plans28

Plans on Education29

Attempts to intend education to Haitians32

Reputation in the global community33

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY36

Research Design36

Literature selection criteria36

Search techniques36

Keywords used37

Theoretical Framework37

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS38

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION42

REFERENCES46

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Health and learning outcomes have been the subject of many economic studies because of their intrinsic value as well as their impact on productivity in the economy. Different countries have different health and learning outcomes, indicating the need for country-level studies to try to understand the determinants of these outcomes in specific environments. This thesis consists of three essays on health and learning outcomes in two developing countries: Burkina Faso and Madagascar. The first experiment examines the relationship between mother's education and child health in Burkina Faso. Household survey data from the Burkina Faso 2007 survey of living standards is used. Endogeneity issues arise from the potential correlation between the errors terms in the mother's education association and the child health association.

To address this endogeneity problem, data from an education policy change that occurred in 1995 in Burkina Faso are used to construct instrument variables. The results show that mother's education positively and significantly affects child HAZ (strong significance) and WHZ (weak significance) in the OLS with fixed effects methods estimation. However, when instrumental variables estimation is used, the mother's education coefficient becomes negative and insignificant in the HAZ regression while it is positive and strongly significant in the WHZ regression. Turning to the pathways, household expenditures and mother's bargaining power are the suggested pathways through which mother's education affects child HAZ. The pathways results for WHZ are quite puzzling, negative for all three pathways investigated, income, health knowledge, and bargaining power, significant for income and bargaining ...