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Infant and child mortality in rural Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

John B. Casterline ,
Elizabeth C. Cooksey  and
Abdel Fattah Ismail
John B. Casterline
Affiliation:
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Elizabeth C. Cooksey
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, USA
Abdel Fattah Ismail
Affiliation:
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Cairo, Egypt
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Summary

This research examines determinants of infant and child mortality in rural Egypt, primarily the effects of household economic status and the availability of health services. Certain features of the health service environment affect survival in the neonatal period. In early childhood, survival chances improve markedly as income increases and if the household depends almost exclusively on employment income. In infancy and in early childhood, mortality is strongly associated with region of residence and maternal demographic characteristics, and is weakly associated with parental schooling.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 245 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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