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1. Formacion de Formadores: Experiencias Institucionales en Planeamiento y Administracion de la Educacion. (The Formation of Educational Planners: Institutional Experiences in Planning and Administration for Education.

Author

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. and Senen Gonzalez, Silvia N. de

Abstract

Information collected from interviews with 15 ministers of education and 30 program directors and researchers at 18 universities in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina is used to study academic programs which prepare persons to be educational planners and administrators. Section one describes background information, institutional and program characteristics, staffing, program evaluations, and future expectations of the institutional programs. Section two reports on conclusions of the study in terms of the necessity for educational programs, objectives, programs' contents, students, themes, changes, resources, graduates, and the relationship of a university to a national planning office. Section three includes recommendations and proposals. Conclusions suggest serious deficiencies in educational planning and administration programs because of reduction in funding and lack of adequate financial sources. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) encourages interchange and cooperation among these countries to: (1) increase the quality of education for planners and administrators; and (2) develop new models of planning and administration management that are more flexible and democratic. Appendices present educational program information by country, by persons interviewed, and includes the questionnaire. (JHP)

Published
1987

2. [Knowledge and use of contraceptives: a comparative analysis with data from reports from Latin American countries].

Author

Taucher E

Subjects
Americas, Caribbean Region, Central America, Colombia, Contraception, Costa Rica, Demography, Developing Countries, Dominican Republic, Family Planning Services, Fertility, Latin America, Marriage, North America, Panama, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Peru, Population, Population Characteristics, Population Dynamics, Research, Rural Population, South America, Urban Population, Age Factors, Birth Rate, Contraception Behavior, Education, Knowledge, Marital Status, Parity, Statistics as Topic
Published
1980

3. [Factors affecting infant mortality (author's transl)].

Author

Chackiel J

Subjects
Birth Intervals, Birth Order, Birth Rate, Colombia, Costa Rica, Demography, Dominican Republic, Economics, Educational Status, Maternal Age, Panama, Peru, Population, Residence Characteristics, Social Class, Fertility, Infant Mortality, Mortality, Population Dynamics, Socioeconomic Factors
Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the differentials and detect factors affecting infant mortality on the basis of data obtained from the fertility surveys from those countries participating in the World Fertility Survey. In particular, this includes the surveys carried out in Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. 3 types of explanatory variables may be considered from the information available: 1) context variables related to the mother's environment; 2) socioeconomic variables based on the educational and economic characteristics of the mother and her last husband; and 3) biological factors (from each woman's pregnancy history) such as mother's age at birth of the child, order of birth, interbirth interval, etc. The countries, whether high or low mortality, present great differences in child mortality in most of the variables considered. In Panama and Costa Rica there are population sectors with infant mortality rates of around 100/1000 live births, whereas in Peru these are over 150/1000 (children from mothers without education, low agricultural strata, etc.). Besides presenting the differentials, a methodological test is made through the application to Costa Rica and Peru of the Proportional Hazards Model which permits analysis of the effects of variables when acting simultaneously upon mortality in early childhood. The variables which show the highest disparity in mortality level are: natural region among the context variables, education of mother among the socioeconomic variables, and interbirth interval and maternal age at birth of their children among the biological ones.

Published
1982