Migration, settlement change and health in post-apartheid South Africa: Triangulating health and demographic surveillance with national census data

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 69, 2007, Pages 77-84

  Collinson, Mark A ^a   Tollman, Stephen M ^a   Kahn, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agincourt; Health policy; Migration; Permanent migration; Rural urban links; South Africa; Tmporary migration; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIGRANT WORKER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX RATIO; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POLICY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC POLICY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34547729802     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034950701356401     Document Type: Article

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