Daniel Buor
Mothers’ education and childhood mortality in Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
significant extent maternal education affects child health advanced several sociodemographicmedical literature much done analysing spatial dimension problem also using graphic linear regression models representation ghana little done relate two variables offer pragmatic explanations need correlate two using regression model rarely applied previous studies methodological necessity paper examines impact mothers education childhood mortality ghana using primarily ghana demographic health survey data 1998 world bank data 2000 survey emphatically established inverse relationship mothers education child survivorship use basic health facilities relate childhood survival shows direct relationship mothers education recommendations policy initiatives simultaneously emphasise education girlchild ensure adequate access maternal child health services made need experimental project integrating maternal education child health services also recommended linear regression model illustrates relationship maternal education childhood survival emerged