Internal Migration and Early Life Mortality in Kenya and Nigeria

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 788-808

  Mberu, Blessing Uchenna ^a   Mutua, Michael ^a  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Children; Early adolescent; Internal migration; Kenya; Mortality; Nigeria; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; IMMIGRANT; INTERNAL MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; YOUNG POPULATION;

KENYA; NIGERIA;

EID: 84946494388     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1857     Document Type: Article

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