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Child Health and Development

In: Health and Development

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  • Linda Richter
  • Chris Desmond

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The links between health and development are strongly manifest among children. A child born in Sierra Leone is more than 90 times more likely to die before they reach five years of age than a child born in Singapore (World Health Organization 2005). A substantial part of this difference relates to access to health services, but the most important single cause of child mortality in the world is undernutrition (Victora et al. 2000). Children die because they don’t have enough quality food. Malnutrition is estimated to be the underlying cause of 53 per cent of child deaths (Black et al. 2003; Fishman et al. 2004). Figure 10.1 gives a breakdown of the causes of death for children under five years of age.

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  • Linda Richter & Chris Desmond, 2009. "Child Health and Development," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anna Gatti & Andrea Boggio (ed.), Health and Development, chapter 10, pages 168-182, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58198-2_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230581982_10
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    1. Servaas van der Berg & Linda Zuze & Grace Bridgman, 2020. "The impact of the Coronavirus and lockdown on children's welfare in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM Wave 1," Working Papers 24/2020, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

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