The impact of rural-urban migration on child survival
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Large rural-urban child mortality differentials in many developing countries suggest that rural families can improve their children’s survival chances by leaving the countryside and settling in towns and cities. This study uses data from Demographic and Health Surveys in 17 countries to assess the impact of maternal rural-urban migration on the survival chances of children under age two in the late 1970s and 1980s. Results show that, before migration, children of migrant women had similar or...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Brockerhoff, Martin | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2002-10-16 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2004-05-19T15:22:46Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-05T08:47:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2004-05-19T15:22:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-05T08:47:22Z | |
dc.date.created | 1994 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41281 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41281 | |
dc.description.abstract | Large rural-urban child mortality differentials in many developing countries suggest that rural families can improve their children’s survival chances by leaving the countryside and settling in towns and cities. This study uses data from Demographic and Health Surveys in 17 countries to assess the impact of maternal rural-urban migration on the survival chances of children under age two in the late 1970s and 1980s. Results show that, before migration, children of migrant women had similar or slightly higher mortality risks than children of women who remained in the village. In the two-year period surrounding their mother’s migration, their chances of dying increased sharply as a result of accompanying their mothers or being left behind, to levels well above those of rural and urban non-migrant children. Children born after migrants had settled in the urban area, however, gradually experienced much better survival chances than children of rural non-migrants, as well as lower mortality risks than migrants’ children born in rural areas before migration. The study concludes that many disadvantaged urban children would probably have been much worse off had their mothers remained in the village, and that millions of children’s lives may have been saved in the 1980s as a result of mothers moving to urban areas. | |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University | |
dc.subject | rural-urban migration | |
dc.subject | child survival | |
dc.subject | developing countries | |
dc.subject | maternal migration | |
dc.subject | migrant women | |
dc.subject | mothers | |
dc.subject | mortality | |
dc.title | The impact of rural-urban migration on child survival | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.refereed | no | |
local.identifier.citationmonth | oct | |
local.identifier.citationnumber | 2 | |
local.identifier.citationpages | 127-149 | |
local.identifier.citationpublication | Health Transition Review | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 4 | |
local.identifier.citationyear | 1994 | |
local.identifier.eprintid | 604 | |
local.rights.ispublished | yes | |
dc.date.issued | 1994 | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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