Child Health and Development

Linda Richter and Chris Desmond

Chapter 10 in Health and Development, 2009, pp 168-182 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The links between health and development are strongly manifest among children. A child born in Sierra Leone is more than 90 times more likely to die before they reach five years of age than a child born in Singapore (World Health Organization 2005). A substantial part of this difference relates to access to health services, but the most important single cause of child mortality in the world is undernutrition (Victora et al. 2000). Children die because they don’t have enough quality food. Malnutrition is estimated to be the underlying cause of 53 per cent of child deaths (Black et al. 2003; Fishman et al. 2004). Figure 10.1 gives a breakdown of the causes of death for children under five years of age.

Keywords: Maternal Depression; Child Poverty; Cash Transfer; Poor Child; Income Transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230581982_10

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