Infant mortality in Uganda: Determinants, trends and the millennium development goals

Type Journal Article - Journal of African Economies
Title Infant mortality in Uganda: Determinants, trends and the millennium development goals
Author(s)
Volume 17
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
Page numbers 34-61
URL http://www.mdgscreens.eu/images/PDF/articoli_ob4/Infant_mortality_in_Uganda_and _MDGs.pdf
Abstract
Unusually for an African economy, Uganda’s growth has been rapid and sustained for an extended period of time. Further, this growth has clearly translated into substantial declines in poverty for all socio-economic groups and in all regions of the country. Despite this, there is concern in the country that other indicators of well-being are not improving at the same rate as incomes. This paper studies one such indicator, infant mortality. We use three rounds of the Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys to construct a national time series for infant mortality over a long period of time, 1974-1999. We also use these survey data to model the determinants of infant mortality and, based on those results, to examine the likelihood that Uganda will meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving infant mortality by 2015.

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