Children of Africa Resources
Articles in World Development
- The Emerging Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Barney Cohen: National Research Council, Washington DC, U.S.A.
This paper summarizes the recent evidence on levels, trends and differentials
in achieved fertility, nuptiality and contraceptive use in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The study indicated a fairly widespread decline in fertility is currently
underway across Africa.
Volume 23 No 10 pp. 1731-1744 Sept-Dec 1995
- Child Survival in East Africa: The Important of Preventive
Health Care.
Martin Brockerhoff (The population Council, New York, U.S.A.) and Laurie F.
Derose (Brown University, Providence Rhode Island U.S.A.)
This study examines whether preventive-primary health care enhanced
early child survival in the late 1980s and late 1990s in five Eastern African
countries. Child mortality rates are considerably lower than they would
have been in the absence of specific immunization, access to save
drinking water, fertility regulation and frequent antenatal care visits.
There was however, substantial missed opportunity for mortality decline
as a result of insufficient use of preventive measures. In particular,
universal immunization across those countries cloud have reduced
rates of mortality under age two as much as one-third.
Volume 21 No 5 pp. 733-748 May 1993
- Household Food Security and child Nutrition: The Interaction
of Income and Gender of Household Heads.
Eileen Kennedy (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC,)
and Pauline Peters (Harvard Institute for international development,
Cambridge Massachusetts)
Data from Kenya and Malawi suggests that food security and preschooler
nutritional status are influenced by the interaction of income and gender
of the head of the household rather than simply one or the other. Not
only is the household food security influenced by total household income
but the proportion of income controlled by women has a positive and
significant influence on household caloric intake ?.. The findings suggest
that interventions that exploit incentive to invest in children can provide
more immediate improvements in child health and nutrition where sustained
income growth is possible only in the long term.
Volume 18 No. 12 pp. 1599-1619 December 1990
