Ready-Willing-Able: Early childhood mortality decline in Turkey

dc.contributor.authorAktar, Rengin
dc.contributor.authorPalloni, Alberto
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:55:09Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:55:09Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractWe test a conjecture to explain Turkey's decades-long 'underachievement' in early child mortality improvements. We argue that it is largely a consequence of cultural barriers to embracing available modern medical technology and healthcare practices. The empirical test rests on a reformulation of Coale's Ready-Willing-Able (RWA) framework for explaining fertility changes, which makes it suitable to understand mortality changes. We use structural equation modelling and Demographic and Health Surveys spanning 1993-2013 to estimate basic parameters of the reformulated framework. These parameters are then used to classify mothers into four groups with different configurations of RWA dimensions and different probabilities of adopting modern medical practices. We find that observed behaviours in these groups were consistent with RWA expectations. In addition, we find that an important contributor to Turkey's lagging mortality decline was a population distribution biased towards groups more reticent to adopting modern healthcare.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institute on Aging [R01-AG016209, R03-AG015673, R01-AG018016, R37-AG025216, R01AG056608, R01AG52030]; Fogarty International Center award for Global Research Training in Population Health [D43-TW001586]; University of Wisconsin-Madison [P30-AG017266, R24-HD047873]; European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [788582]; European Research Council (ERC) [788582] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)en_US
dc.description.sponsorship1. Rengin Aktar is based in the Department of Sociology, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. Alberto Palloni is based at the Centre for Demography and Health of Ageing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. 2. Please direct all correspondence to Rengin Aktar, Department of Sociology, Istanbul Bilgi University, Eski Silahtaraa Elektrik Santral, Kazm Karabekir Cad. No: 2/13, 34060 Eyupsultan, Istanbul, Turkey; or by Email: renginaktar@gmail.com 3. Palloni's research was supported by the National Institute on Aging via research project grants R01-AG016209, R03-AG015673, R01-AG018016, R37-AG025216, R01AG056608, and R01AG52030; by a Fogarty International Center award for Global Research Training in Population Health, D43-TW001586; by core grants to the Center for Demography and Ecology, R24-HD047873 and to the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, P30-AG017266, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and by a European Research Council (ERC) grant under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 788582). 4. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00324728.2022.2058596
dc.identifier.endpage293en_US
dc.identifier.issn0032-4728
dc.identifier.issn1477-4747
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.pmid35502930en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85129268039en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage273en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2058596
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8741
dc.identifier.volume76en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000790132100001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofPopulation Studies-A Journal of Demographyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectEarly Childhood Mortalityen_US
dc.subjectUnderachievers İn Mortalityen_US
dc.subjectLags İn Mortalityen_US
dc.subjectReady-Willing-Able Frameworken_US
dc.subjectCultural Resistance And Mortality Declineen_US
dc.subjectCultural Bottlenecks Delaying Mortality Transitionsen_US
dc.subjectDeterminantsen_US
dc.subjectInfanten_US
dc.titleReady-Willing-Able: Early childhood mortality decline in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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