Divergences in trends in child and adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
Survey evidence on the survival of children and siblings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4774423 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno Masquelier (0000-0002-9585-891X, UCLouvain, corresponding author), Georges Reniers (0000-0001-6582-1692, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Gilles Pison (0000-0001-5916-2360, Institut national d'études démographiques) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-177 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.2013.856458 |
| PMID | 24303913 |
| OpenAlex | W2070086625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 41 |
This paper provides an overview of trends in mortality in children aged under 5 and adults between the ages of 15 and 60 in sub-Saharan Africa, using data on the survival of the children and siblings collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. If conspicuous stalls in the 1990s are disregarded, child mortality levels have generally declined and converged over the last 30-40 years. In contrast, adult mortality in many East and Southern African countries has increased markedly, echoing earlier increases in the incidence of HIV. In recent years, adult mortality levels have begun to decline once again in East Africa, in some instances before the large-scale expansion of antiretroviral therapy programmes. More surprising is the lack of sustained improvements in adult survival in some countries that have not experienced severe HIV epidemics. Because trends in child and adult mortality do not always evolve in tandem, we argue that model-based estimates, inferred by matching indices of child survival onto standard mortality schedules, can be very misleading
Antiretroviral therapy · Child mortality · Child survival · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Incidence (geometry) · Mortality rate · Population · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Citations per year | 1,83 |
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| Highly cited | No |
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