The Study of Sociseconomic Status and Life Habitfor Children of Elementary School

Autor: Yu-Ching Yang, 楊玉卿
Rok vydání: 2016
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 104
In Taiwan, it was booming economy, living standards increasing and household income improving significantly in recent decades. However, habits and patterns of family is changing by income increasing. Especially, it is huge impact for school children. The daily life and habits for school children are constrained by their family. And school children have to rely on care and feeding from their parents or elders because they have no ability to take care of themselves. Literature and information have shown that children’s life and habits will be impacted when their parents’ or elders’ life and habits were changing. These will lead to school children shown constipation, obesity, tooth decay and myopia on children’s health situation. It is warning to pay more attention to the health standards of school children because children’s health situation is not as good as before, even worse year by year. The purpose is to try to construct a model to explore the relationship between family socioeconomic level and the school children’s living habits, and then to analyze what the factors are on children’s health status. This study uses the database of Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (NAHSIT II) from 2001 to 2002 for elementary school children investigation of Taiwan. And it employs Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) from Rosenzweig and Schultz (1983) to construct the model of health production function for proceeding the empirical analysis and discussion. This study is expected that the higher level of household economic status, primary school students living habits more able to be controlled and the performance of their health better. In addition, the results of this study are also hoping to improve and provide a culture and lifestyle habits of school children reference for our education units.
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