Childhood vs adulthood health and cleanliness on educational outcome in Indonesia: moving towards Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

As a key indicator in Sustainable Development Goals, good health and well-being, also clean water and sanitation is studied in this research. In Indonesia where infrastructure development is still advancing, the difference of those infrastructure when people are in childhood and adulthood could be very different. It is also interrelated to their health status. Early health is considered as important, if not more, to current health as in early years there are primary development happened to an individual, whether it is internal or external. Health is also linked to productivity such as educational outcomes. This study aims to explain the relationship of health and cleanliness between childhood and adulthood on educational outcomes. Using IFLS 5 data and multinomial logistic, the result is while cleanliness and infrastructure in childhood is found to be more important for higher education, current health and early health is just as strong.