Urban area disadvantage and under-5 mortality in Nigeria: The effect of rapid urbanization

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 877-883

  Antai, Diddy ^a   Moradi, Tahereh ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Multilevel modeling; Nigeria; Rapid urbanization; Under 5 mortality; Urban area disadvantage; Urban context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; NIGERIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77953264378     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901306     Document Type: Article

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