H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2024

EPOCH · Women’s political EmPOwerment and Child Health

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-10-01 → 2024-01-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 191 149 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Политическото представителство на жените в развиващите се страни се анализира спрямо влиянието му върху здравето на децата. Това помага да се разбере дали по-голямото участие на жените в управлението води до реални подобрения в здравните показатели.

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Резултати накратко

Women’s political EmPOwerment and Child Health

The primary objectives of the EPOCH (Women’s political EmPOwerment and Child Health) project are to: 1) systematically assess the effects of Women’s Political Representation (WPR) on child health in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) by using state-of-the-art statistical models combining cross-sectional and longitudinal data; and 2) to establish concrete mechanisms linking WPR with child health. The project derives from the hypothesis that the quality of a country’s political institutions is the primary explanation for countries’ economic and health progress. Specifically, the degree to which political institutions are inclusive versus exclusive has been shown to explain an important part of countries’ long-run development. Although the literature has found that the inclusiveness of political institutions is positively related to economic growth and development, little attention is being paid to the inclusiveness of political institutions with regard to WPR. This is a significant shortcoming as democratic systems per se are no guarantee for the inclusion of women in political decision-making, with many democracies featuring less than 30 percent of women represented in parliaments. Empirically, most indicators of Women’s Political Representation (WPR) are positively associated with health outcomes at the country level. However, existing studies on the relation between WPR and population health are analytically weak and inconclusive due to their: 1) almost exclusively observational nature, 2) reliance on aggregate-level, or 3) cross-sectional data. As a result, an open question remains whether greater WPR is causally related to population and child health, or whether the causality is in fact reverse, as countries with higher levels of development may simply be more likely to have higher levels of WPR. Furthermore, the reliance of aggregate-level data (mostly on the country-level) has hampered the identification of concrete mechanisms linking WPR with (child) health. By addressing these shortcomings of previous studies, the EPOCH project makes an important contribution to the scholarship on the primary explanations for population health and the role of political institutions as a determinant. Robust evidence on the relation between WPR and (child) health has the potential to further question the dominant view that economic growth is the most important driver of population health – a key dimension of human development. From a policy perspective, the expected results of this study are highly relevant for setting policy priorities in LMIC as increasing WPR, if proven causal, could represent a very cost-effective way for health promotion in LMIC and for achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target #3.2.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Although increasing women’s representation in political decision-making has the potential to significantly improve child health and development in LMIC, existing evidence is almost exclusively observational with little to know knowledge on the exact mechanisms linking both dimensions. To address this important knowledge gap, the EPOCH project will use a highly inter-disciplinary approach in combination with state-of-the-art quasi-experimental methods and detailed cross-national information of electoral outcomes with micro-data on child health and development. Strong evidence on the effects of women’s political representation on child health and development could be important for advancing the twin Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending preventable deaths of children under five years of age and ensuring women’s full and effective participation at all levels of decision-making. After working several years in the United States and Latin America, for the Marie Curie Reintegration Fellowship, the applicant will return to Europe to work at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute / University of Basel under the supervision of Prof. Günther Fink, a worldwide leading researcher on child health and development in LMIC. The applicant will gain knowledge of a new promising research field and gain new skills and competencies in the form of quasi-experimental methods for policy evaluation, publishing in high-impact general discipline journals, dissemination as well as writing of major grants. The applicant will enrich the host institutions by providing teaching and supervision activities as well as by fostering research collaborations with Latin America. The planned activities will position the applicant as a leading inter-disciplinary scholar of demography and population health with excellent prospects for attracting a major research grant, leading an independent research group and/or getting a tenure track position at a leading research university in Europe.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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