Child migration and mortality in rural Nyanza Province: Evidence from the kisumu health and demographic surveillance system (KHDSS) in Western Kenya

The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-158

  Adazu, Kubaje ^a   Feiken, Daniel ^b   Ofware, Peter ^c   Onyango, Bernard ^d   Obor, David ^g   Kiriinya, Rose ^e   Slutsker, Laurence ^f   Vulule, John ^a   Laserson, Kayla ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

^c AMREF HEALTH AFRICA   (Kenya)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g KEMRI ^*

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