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Title:Change in Ngamiland's regional mortality ranking from 1971 to 2001
Author:Vanderpost, Cornelis
Year:2010
Periodical:Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090)
Volume:42
Pages:31-44
Language:English
Geographic term:Botswana
Subject:mortality
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/23237969
Abstract:Change in the regional mortality ranking of Ngamiland in northwestern Botswana is discussed from the early 1970s to 2001, using data from the population censuses of 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. Until the 1980s, Ngamiland, one of the most remote regions in Botswana, exhibited the highest rural district mortality level. But from the 1990s, the region moved toward a middle position on the mortality listing of rural districts. It is suggested that this change is related to the decreasing importance of traditional tropical diseases (mainly bilharzia and sleeping sickness) and the increasing importance of regionally different HIV/AIDS related mortality in recent years. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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