Residential area as proxy for socio-economic status, paediatric mortality and birth weight in Lusaka, Zambia

Type Journal Article - Journal of tropical pediatrics
Title Residential area as proxy for socio-economic status, paediatric mortality and birth weight in Lusaka, Zambia
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Volume 54
Issue 6
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
Page numbers 406-409
URL http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/6/406.short
Abstract
Systems of socio-economic classification comparable to the Registrar General's Social Classification or post codes are not readily available in many developing countries. Thus health data from developing countries are usually presented without a refined geographical focus. The hierarchical urban residential classification system in Zambia was used as a socio-economic proxy to explore the relationship with mass measures of paediatric health in Lusaka, Zambia. This study shows that the Zambian urban residential classification system appears to be a valid proxy of socio-economic status, revealing residential gradients with respect to birth weight and paediatric mortality rates in Lusaka.

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