Ready-Willing-Able: Early childhood mortality decline in Turkey
dc.contributor.author | Aktar, Rengin | |
dc.contributor.author | Palloni, Alberto | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-18T20:55:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-18T20:55:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.department | İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | We 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.sponsorship | National 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.sponsorship | 1. 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.doi | 10.1080/00324728.2022.2058596 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 293 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0032-4728 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1477-4747 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 35502930 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85129268039 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | 273 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2058596 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11411/8741 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 76 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000790132100001 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wosquality | Q2 | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | PubMed | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Population Studies-A Journal of Demography | en_US |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Early Childhood Mortality | en_US |
dc.subject | Underachievers İn Mortality | en_US |
dc.subject | Lags İn Mortality | en_US |
dc.subject | Ready-Willing-Able Framework | en_US |
dc.subject | Cultural Resistance And Mortality Decline | en_US |
dc.subject | Cultural Bottlenecks Delaying Mortality Transitions | en_US |
dc.subject | Determinants | en_US |
dc.subject | Infant | en_US |
dc.title | Ready-Willing-Able: Early childhood mortality decline in Turkey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |