Urban Slums and the Social Production of Infant Mortality Rates in the Less Developed Countries

This book utilises the first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urban slum prevalence or the proportion of the total population living in urban slum conditions on national level measures of infant mortality rates over the period 1990 to 2005. Utilising data on 81 less developed countries, the results illustrate increasing urban slum prevalence over the period is a robust predictor of increasing infant mortality rates. This effect obtains net the statistically significant influence of gross domestic product per capita, fertility rate, and female secondary school enrolment. The results confirm urban slum prevalence growth is an important contextual dynamic whereby the social production of infant mortality is enacted in the less developed countries.

Urban Slums and the Social Production of Infant Mortality Rates in the Less Developed Countries features in the following genres: Sociology and anthropology

Urban Slums and the Social Production of Infant Mortality Rates in the Less Developed Countries is available in Paperback

Urban Slums and the Social Production of Infant Mortality Rates in the Less Developed Countries was written by James Rice and published by Nova Science Publishers an imprint of Nova Science Publishers Inc

Urban Slums and the Social Production of Infant Mortality Rates in the Less Developed Countries has 49 pages

Yes it is part of Social Justice, Equality and Empowerment. series

£47.69