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Publication Literacy as a pathway between schooling and health-related communication skills: a study of Venezuelan mothers(2005) Schnell-Anzola, Beatrice; Rowe, Meredith; Levine, RobertThis article addresses the mechanisms by which women’s schooling might affect the survival and health of their children. A theoretical model is proposed in which academic literacy skills serve as a pathway between formal schooling and maternal health-related behaviors. The model is tested through multivariate analyses of interview and literacy data from 161 mothers in a poor, urban community in Venezuela. Results show that the academic literacy skills women learned in school and retained into adulthood, predict their health-related communication skills above and beyond the amount of schooling they received. The importance of female schooling in developing countries is discussed.Publication Maternal Literacy and Child Health in Less-Developed Countries: Evidence, Processes, and Limitations(2009) Levine, Robert; Rowe, MeredithPublication Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study(2004) Levine, Robert; Levine, Sarah; Rowe, Meredith; Schnell-Anzola, BeatriceThis article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was directly assessed suggest a literacy pathway to demographic change. The literacy skills of 167 urban and rural mothers of school-aged children in Lalitpur District of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal were assessed by tests of reading comprehension, academic language proficiency, health media skills and health narrative skill, as part of studies in the urban and rural communitiesthat included a maternal interview and ethnographic fieldwork on the contexts of family life, health care and female schooling. Regression analysis of the data indicates the retention of literacy skills in adulthood and their influence on health behavior; ethnographic evidence shows that selective bias in school attainment does not account for the results. Further direct assessment studies are recommended.Publication How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal(University of Chicago Press, 2005) Rowe, Meredith; Thapa, Bijaya Kumar; Levine, Robert; Levine, Sarah; Tuladhar, Sumon K.