Household vulnerability to food crisis and mortality in the drought-prone areas of northern Ethiopia

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 395-409

  Ezra, Markos ^a   Kiros, Gebre Egziabher ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUNGER; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEATHER;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DROUGHT; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FAMINE; FOOD SUPPLY; HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION; MICROECONOMIC FACTORS; MORTALITY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; STUDIES; SURVEYS; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STARVATION;

EID: 0033947628     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932000003953     Document Type: Article

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