dc.contributor.author | AKACHI, Yoko | |
dc.contributor.author | CANNING, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-11-20T11:08:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-11-20T11:08:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1830-7728 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/9857 | |
dc.description.abstract | In most developing countries, rising levels of nutrition and improvements in public health have led to declines in infant mortality and rising adult height. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, we see a different pattern. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen large reductions in infant mortality over the last fifty years, but without any increase in protein or energy intake, and against a background of stagnant, or even declining, adult height. Adult height is a sensitive indicator of the nutrition and morbidity prevailing during the childhood of the cohort and can be taken as a measure of population health. Declining infant mortality rates in Sub-Saharan Africa appear to be driven by medical interventions that reduce infant mortality, and may not be reflective of broad-based health improvements. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI MWP | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2008/41 | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.subject | Height | en |
dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa | en |
dc.subject | childhood health | en |
dc.subject | childhood nutrition | en |
dc.subject | infant mortality rate | en |
dc.subject | morbidity and mortality | en |
dc.title | Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Height | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.neeo.contributor | AKACHI|Yoko|aut| | |
dc.neeo.contributor | CANNING|David|aut| | |
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