Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Health in Africa, Issue 766Population, Health, and Nutrition, Population and Human Resources Department, World Bank, 1991 - Africa, Sub-Saharan - 74 pages Has the economic crisis of the 1980s in Sub-Saharan Africa increased mortality or at least reduced its rate of decline? Nationally, no. But the urban poor suffered more, the rural nonpoor less. |
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Economic Crisis and Structural Adjustment | 2 |
Child Mortality Trends in SubSaharan Africa in the 1980s | 9 |
Child Health Investment | 17 |
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Abidjan adjustment policies analysis Burundi changes in child child survival Cote d'Ivoire crisis and adjustment decline in child differences in child dying by age economic crisis economic crisis-adjustment period EDUCATION IN COTE effect on child effects of crisis environmental contamination expansionary period FIGURE Ghana GROUP IN COTE health status health-promoting activities health-related higher households income groups infant and child infant mortality rates INFANT MORTALITY TRENDS investment Ivorian Ivory Coast Kenya level of child Logistic Regression LSMS mortality data macroeconomic MC curve MOTHER'S EDUCATION MOVING AVERAGE negative NEONATAL MORTALITY TRENDS NNMR numbers Oral Rehydration Therapy pattern percent period dummy variables PNMR Population POSTNEONATAL MORTALITY TRENDS primary education probability of dying proximate determinants public health expenditures real income reduced rural areas rural poor SAVINGS GROUP sector Senegal socioeconomic groups structural adjustment Sub-Saharan Africa Table Togo TRENDS BY INCOME TRENDS BY SAVINGS TRENDS IN COTE urban areas urban poor World Bank