Vulnerable diseases affecting child mortality in Sierra Leone: emerging health issue

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dc.contributor.authorDavids, Saarah F.
dc.contributor.authorAppunni, Sathiya Susuman
dc.contributor.authorAbduraghiem, Latief
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-25T14:18:36Z
dc.date.available2013-11-25T14:18:36Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractChild mortality in Sierra Leone is the highest ranked in the world. The main causes for child mortality are maternal factors, environmental factors and health factors. Minimal research has been carried out on health factors in Sierra Leone. The objective of this study is to see how maternal and environmental factors have an effect on health factors, which in turn cause child mortality. The data used were from the 2008 Sierra Leone Demographic and Household Survey (SLDHS). The study showed that child mortality had statistically significant factors associated with it: place of residence, birth number, religion and type of toilet facility. Furthermore, the SLDHS had not given much information regarding the cause of diseases affecting children, so we looked only at the effects they had on children. Acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea and measles each had one variable that was statistically significant. As for pneumonia, there were no variables associated with children contracting the disease.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDavids, S.F., Appunni, S.S. & Abduraghiem, L. (2012). Vulnerable diseases affecting child mortality in Sierra Leone: emerging health issue. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 48(3) 348-369en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-9096
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/862
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909612459017
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article published available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909612459017
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectChildhood mortalityen_US
dc.subjectDiseasesen_US
dc.subjectHealth facilitiesen_US
dc.subjectHealth promotionen_US
dc.subjectMaternal educationen_US
dc.titleVulnerable diseases affecting child mortality in Sierra Leone: emerging health issueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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