Changing caregiving relationships for older home-based Chinese people in a transitional stage: Trends, factors and policy implications

Leveraging data from a nationally representative school-based adolescent survey, the current study aimed to provide a comprehensive assessment of how family income is associated with multiple cognitive and educational outcomes in China and examine the underlying material and psychosocial mechanisms. We found robust associations of family income with school grades, cognitive ability, and study attitude, but not with homework engagement. Moreover, we found that home amenities, i.e., measuring home-based material resources, played the largest mediating role in explaining family income effects on cognitive ability and study attitude. Among the non-monetary or intangible intervening factors, children’s own and peers’ educational aspirations along with mother-child communication were the most important mechanisms. To a lesser extent, family income effects were also attributable to harmonious parent-child and between-parent relationships. The key take-home message is that home environments constitute a prominent setting outside of school exerting powerful influences shaping school outcomes for Chinese adolescents. Our study contributes to a better understanding of how family economic resources are transmitted to children’s cognitive and educational advantages via home material resources, family non-monetary features, children’s agency, and peer influence. Policy implications and future research are discussed.

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Parent–Child Leisure and Parent Affect: The Role of Family Structure

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211010856 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110108

Author(s):

Camilla J. Hodge ◽

Jocelyn Wikle

Keyword(s):

Family Structure ◽

Single Parents ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Structural Constraints ◽

Family Structures ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Home Based ◽

Parent Affect ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Parent Child

This study evaluates differences in parent–child leisure and parent affect across single- and two-parent families. The Ecology of Family Experiences framework suggests contextual factors such as family structure and the novelty of the activity environment contribute to heterogeneity in how parents experience leisure, partly because constraints may differ across family structures. Using a large, nationally representative data sample of parents from the American Time Use Survey (N = 78,353), this study shows single-parents experience leisure deficits compared to other parents, and leisure deficits are greatest in home-based leisure. Additionally, using a subsample (N = 16,214), we found that at-home leisure is more meaningful for single parents than other parents, suggesting avoidance behaviors do not drive differences. Instead, structural constraints like time and money likely curb leisure in single-parent homes. Findings have policy implications, because many leisure programs target away-from-home leisure which is less restorative to single parents.

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Maternal Healthcare in Rural Uttar Pradesh: Influence of free Services on Healthcare-Seeking behaviour of Women

South Asia Research ◽

10.1177/0262728020944277 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 362-380

Author(s):

Lakshmi Devi ◽

Manvinder Kaur

Keyword(s):

Rural Women ◽

Uttar Pradesh ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Strategic Choices ◽

Maternal Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Seeking ◽

Home Based ◽

State Financing ◽

The Impact

This field-based study evaluates the impact of free maternal healthcare services on the healthcare-seeking behaviour of 125 pregnant women in six villages of Uttar Pradesh. The 87 Muslim and 38 non-Muslim women participating in this project appreciated the antenatal and postnatal care processes on offer. Yet, various government efforts to encourage women to give birth in government hospitals to comply with international benchmarks on reduction of maternal mortality rates were unsuccessful. The study explores the various reasons for the strategic choices made by these rural women, who continue to favour home-based delivery. The findings raise policy implications about how state financing of maternal healthcare provisions in India is to be delivered, in the best possible manner, at local levels.

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Analysis of neonatal deaths in Maharashtra: policy implications

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20175322 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (12) ◽

pp. 4513 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. Saunik ◽

C. Jaiswal ◽

R. Nair ◽

A. Radkar ◽

A. Patil ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Facility ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Child Survival ◽

The State ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Health Programs ◽

Neonatal Deaths ◽

Home Based ◽

Major Factors ◽

Child Health Programs

Background: As per statistics on infant mortality, the State of Maharashtra has done well in bringing down IMR from 33 to 21 per 1000 live births. However a lot needs to be achieved still. Various child health programs like home based new born care and others have improved child survival. But the analysis of cases will throw light on actionable points for policy change. Methods: Keeping in mind mortality statistics of the State, an analysis was done on causes of neonatal deaths and social determinants. A retrospective study was done on causes of death from birth to 28 days during 2015-2016 in the State of Maharashtra. 6 deaths per block were reviewed by a committee that included a pediatrician. Verbal autopsy was done and all factors like social, cultural, behavioral as well as factors that resulted in delay in deciding to take the baby to health facility, delay in transport and delay at health facility were studied in details. Results: Latur circle had the highest deaths i.e. 70%, Nashik and Gadchiroli had 62 and 63% respectively. Males were more than females (55.7%). ^0.6% of deaths occurred in babies weighing less than 2500 gms. Delay in deciding to take the baby to the health facility and getting treatment was important (41.4% cases). In 40.8% cases delay in receiving treatment at health facility was observed. Major causes were infections, prematurity and asphyxia. Conclusions: Various causes of neonatal deaths are studied. Delay in deciding to take the baby to the health facility was one of the major factors. Majority of deaths were due to infection prematurity and asphyxia.

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Analysis on the Development Mode of Home Based Pension Real Estate

Journal of Mechanical, Civil and Industrial Engineering ◽

10.32996/jmcie.2022.3.1.1 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yilun Peng

Keyword(s):

Family Structure ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

The Elderly ◽

Population Ageing ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Chinese People ◽

Development Mode ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Home Based ◽

Traditional Mode

With the growth of the proportion of the ageing population, the problem of population ageing in China has become increasingly prominent because the implementation of family planning policy intensifies the speed of ageing development in China. The restructuring of family structure caused by social reasons, "421" and "422" have become the current family structure mode. With the vigorous development of the economy, the traditional mode and way of the traditional mode and way of providing for the aged cannot meet the spiritual and life needs of the elderly. Most of the institutions only develop the projects to provide for the aged, but not combined with the traditional way of providing for the aged in China. Based on the two-way needs of the young and the elderly, this paper combines the traditional culture with China's current national conditions and constructs the most suitable pension mode for China's traditional pension mode and Chinese people.

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