Growth studies in Turkey (1917−2007): an anthropological perspective

İzzet DUYAR

Article Details

Growth studies in Turkey (1917−2007): an anthropological perspective

Authors:

İzzet DUYAR

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Journal:

Eurasian Journal of Anthropology 2010 Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.59-78

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2010

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000705304

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

2166-7411

Abstract:

 


The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how economic, social, and cultural factors affect the
growth process in an economically developing country, Turkey. Growth studies carried out in
Turkey indicate that living in urban or rural areas affect children’s physical growth rate.
Furthermore, social and economic milieu influence children’s physical growth. As a reflection
of this fact, a positive secular trend can be observed in growth patterns accelerating after
World War 2, the period when substantive attempts to integrate into the world trade system
occurred. Children of families from upper socioeconomic classes grow at a faster rate than those
from both low and middle socioeconomic classes and those living in rural regions. Additionally, when the physical growth rates of children from rural regions and those from shanty
slums are compared, the growth rate in shanty slums proves greater. Yet, the opposite is true
of villages that receive advanced health care services and have a developed economy. These
studies also indicate that while growth rates of upper class Turkish children approach the
norms of Europe and the USA, those of children from middle and lower classes fall well below
them.

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Article Details

Growth studies in Turkey (1917−2007): an anthropological perspective

Authors: İzzet DUYAR

Publisher: Istanbul University

Journal: Eurasian Journal of Anthropology 2010 Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.59-78

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2010

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000705304

Frequency: Monthly

eISSN: 2166-7411

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Authors:

İzzet DUYAR

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Journal:

Eurasian Journal of Anthropology 2010 Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.59-78

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2010

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000705304

Frequency:

Monthly

eISSN:

2166-7411