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Southern Africa

Socioeconomic stress, health and child nutritional status in Zimbabwe at a time of economic structural adjustment : a three-year longitudinal study

Upphovspersoner: Bijlmakers, Leon A. | Basset, Mary T. | Sanders, David M.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1998
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Structural adjustment, Child health, Child nutrition, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This report intervenes in the debate on the implications of structural adjustment for the social sector in Africa. It finds a strong association between structural adjustment implementation and a sharp deterioration both in the household economy and in the health status of the working poor in urban and rural Zimbabwe.