Going Back Home: Internal Return Migration in Rural Tanzania

Going home after Hurricane Katrina: Determinants of return migration and changes in affected areas.

This article examines the decision of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return to their pre-Katrina areas and documents how the composition of the Katrina-affected region changed over time. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we show that an evacuee's age, family income, and the severity of damage in an evacuee's county of origin are important determinants of whether an evacuee returned ...

Perinatal mortality in home births in rural Tanzania.

OBJECTIVE To compare perinatal mortality, stratified for risk level, in home births attended by a relative or traditional birth attendant without formal training with births attended by trained personnel in a dispensary or hospital. STUDY DESIGN A prospective community based study in five villages in Northwestern Tanzania during 1990, involving 222 women delivering at home and 199 in a dispen...

Going back home - Social simulation and artificial intelligence

Understanding home-based neonatal care practice in rural southern Tanzania.

In order to understand home-based neonatal care practices in rural Tanzania, with the aim of providing a basis for the development of strategies for improving neonatal survival, we conducted a qualitative study in southern Tanzania. In-depth interviews, focus group discussions and case studies were used through a network of female community-based informants in eight villages of Lindi Rural and ...

Three Essays on Internal Migration and Nutrition in Tanzania

ing from the case when the variance of childhood height approaches infinity, β approaches zero if the covariance between adult height and childhood height approaches zero. In other words, β approaches zero when childhood height is not a good predictor of adult height. Such an outcome is possible if short and stunted children catch-up others – or if the growth of the taller children in the sampl...