Session 121:
Urban Health: Pathologies, Crime and Violence
Discussant: Mark Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand
Chair: Blessing Mberu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
The poor and their health and well-being in Nigerian cities • Geoffrey I. Nwaka, Abia State University
Determinants of childhood diarrhea in a highly heterogeneous urban context: the case of Dakar - Senegal • Iulia Rautu, Université Catholique de Louvain ; Stéphanie Dos Santos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) et Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) ; Bruno D. Schoumaker, Université Catholique de Louvain
The impact of environmental threats on the occurrence of respiratory illnesses in children: evidence in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) • Stéphanie Dos Santos, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) et Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) ; Franklin Bouba Djourdebbé, Université de Montréal ; Bassiahi Abdramane Soura, Université de Ouagadougou
Life expectancy of South African adolescents with and without interpersonal violence as a cause of death, 2001-2010 • Nicole De Wet, University of the Witwatersrand
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