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| Title: | Child Mortality and Socioeconomic Status in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Authors: | Amouzou, Agbessi Hill, Kenneth |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | African Population Studies |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | April |
| Pages: | 1-11 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | child mortality Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Health and Nutrition Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Urbanization and Migration Economics and Trade Education and Oral Traditions |
| External link: | http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?ep04001 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines under-five mortality trends in sub-Saharan Africa, and the association between socioeconomic status - indicated by per capita income, illiteracy, urbanization - and under-five mortality between 1960 and 2000. It shows substantial decline in under-five mortality in all sub-Saharan Africa regions between 1970 and 1990. Regional differentials among West, Central and East Africa that existed in the 1960s had largely disappeared by 1990. However, the decline in under-five mortality appears to have stalled in the 1990s and some countries have experienced increases. The analyses show a consistent negative relationship between under-five mortality and per capita income, but a given income implies lower under-five mortality as one moves towards the present. There is also a significant positive association between illiteracy and under-five mortality, and a negative association between urbanization and under-five mortality. However, the effects of urbanization and illiteracy have diminished in the past decade, while the effect of per capita income has increased. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
