Introduction In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), the probability of dying in
childhood is strongly related to the socio-economic position of the parents or household in …

No developing country can afford to ignore the shift in the locus of poverty, food insecurity,
and malnutrition from rural to urban areas it is now experiencing. This review of recent …

The majority of people now live in urban areas and will do so for the foreseeable future. As a
force in the demographic and health transition, urbanization is associated with falling birth …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical …

Abstract In the United States and other high-income countries, there is intense scholarly and
programmatic interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on …

Background Currently, poor-rich inequalities in health in developing countries receive a lot
of attention from both researchers and policy makers. Since measuring economic status in …

This paper examines levels and trends of urban–rural differentials in child malnutrition, and
investigates whether residual differences exist between urban and rural areas, given …

The practice of appropriate health seeking has a great potential to reduce the occurrence of
severe and life‐threatening child illnesses. We assessed the influence of socio …

Objectives To document and compare the magnitude of inequities in child malnutrition
across urban and rural areas, and to investigate the extent to which within-urban disparities …

This study examines the relationship between measures of skeletal and dental development
and socioeconomic factors in a 20th century documented skeletal sample of children from …