Nutrition, health and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa : is there a gender bias?

Stephan Klasen

Anthropometric, mortality, and population data presented by Svedberg (1990) in this journal suggested a slight anti-male bias in undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. This article re-analyses some of the same data and supplements them with more recent findings. In contrast to Svedberg's results, it finds evidence of a slight and rising anti-female bias in sub-Saharan Africa, which is particularly apparent in mortality and population indicators. (DSE/DÜI)

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Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	Klasen, Stephan
Published in:	The journal of development studies : JDS. - Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, ISSN 0022-0388, ZDB-ID 3018-1. - Vol. 32.1996, 6, p. 913-932
Subject:	Sterblichkeit \| Mortality \| Ernährung \| Nutrition \| Gesundheit \| Health \| Geschlecht \| Gender \| Zentralafrika \| Central Africa \| Subsahara-Afrika \| Sub-Saharan Africa \| Unterernährung \| Undernutrition \| Kindersterblichkeit \| Child mortality

Extent:	Graph. Darst
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Notes:	Kommentare S. 933 - 948
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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