RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Child health inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
A1 Marrero Díaz, Gustavo Alberto
A1 Pérez-Mesa, David
A1 Darias-Curvo, Sara
A2 CEDESOG
K1 Child health inequality
K1 Child age distribution
K1 Sub-Saharan Africa
K1 Family background
K1 Anthropometric
AB We investigate child height inequality and inequality of predicted height in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region by socioeconomic, demographic and geographical factors. We characterize their changes in age-cohorts (from 0‐1 up to 4‐5 years old) and determine the contribution of each factor to these changes. We extract data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 33 SSA countries covering the period from 2009 to 2016. Our measure of health is the standardized height of children below the age of five, adjusted by the age and gender distribution in each country. We show that height inequality is lower for older children than for their younger peers. However, the share of inequality caused by our set of factors rises along the age distribution in more than 80% of countries. We find that family background (reflected by maternal education and the household wealth), followed by home infrastructures related to water, toilet and cooking facilities, and the region of residence contribute to explaining the differences observed in child health inequality along the age distribution in SSA.
SN 1873-6130
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34942
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34942
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 07-ago-2024