Rainfall variation as a factor in child survival in rural Burkina Faso: The benefit of an event-history analysis

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-20

  Dos Santos, Stéphanie ^a   Henry, Sabine ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Child mortality; Rainfall; Rural areas

Indexed keywords

CHILD MORTALITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; INCOME; MALNUTRITION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAINFALL; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 38949121183     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.470     Document Type: Article

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