Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries

Demography

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 337-360

  Hathi, Payal ^a   Haque, Sabrina ^b   Pant, Lovey ^a   Coffey, Diane ^a,c,d   Spears, Dean ^a,c,d  

^a a research institute for compassionate economics   (India)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Child height; Infant mortality; Population density; Sanitation; South Asia

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION;

BANGLADESH; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; POPULATION DENSITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOILET FACILITIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85008608267     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-016-0538-y     Document Type: Article

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