Child health inequities in developing countries: differences across urban and rural areas
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Child health inequities in developing countries: differences across urban and rural areas
OBJECTIVES To document and compare the magnitude of inequities in child malnutrition across urban and rural areas, and to investigate the extent to which within-urban disparities in child malnutrition are accounted for by the characteristics of communities, households and individuals. METHODS The most recent data sets available from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of 15 countries in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-5-9