Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality around the Developing World

de Walque, Damien; Filmer, Deon

dc.creator	de Walque, Damien
dc.creator	Filmer, Deon
dc.date	2012-03-19T18:03:12Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T18:03:12Z
dc.date	2011-06-01
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-17T20:57:36Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-17T20:57:36Z
dc.identifier	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110630104028
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3480
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/244444
dc.description	The authors combine data from 84 Demographic and Health Surveys from 46 countries to analyze trends and socioeconomic differences in adult mortality, calculating mortality based on the sibling mortality reports collected from female respondents aged 15-49. The analysis yields four main findings. First, adult mortality is different from child mortality: while under-5 mortality shows a definite improving trend over time, adult mortality does not, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second main finding is the increase in adult mortality in Sub-Saharan African countries. The increase is dramatic among those most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Mortality rates in the highest HIV-prevalence countries of southern Africa exceed those in countries that experienced episodes of civil war. Third, even in Sub-Saharan countries where HIV-prevalence is not as high, mortality rates appear to be at best stagnating, and even increasing in several cases. Finally, the main socioeconomic dimension along which mortality appears to differ in the aggregate is gender. Adult mortality rates in Sub-Saharan Africa have risen substantially higher for men than for women especially so in the high HIV-prevalence countries. On the whole, the data do not show large gaps by urban/rural residence or by school attainment.
dc.language	English
dc.relation	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5716
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subject	ADULT HEALTH
dc.subject	ADULT MORTALITY
dc.subject	ADULT POPULATION
dc.subject	AGE GROUPS
dc.subject	AGING
dc.subject	AIDS EPIDEMIC
dc.subject	ANTENATAL CARE
dc.subject	BIASES
dc.subject	BIRTHS
dc.subject	CALCULATION
dc.subject	CENTER FOR HEALTH
dc.subject	CHILD MORTALITY
dc.subject	CIVIL WAR
dc.subject	COUNTING
dc.subject	CULTURAL CHANGE
dc.subject	DECLINES IN MORTALITY
dc.subject	DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subject	DIARRHEA
dc.subject	DISEASES
dc.subject	DISPARITIES IN HEALTH
dc.subject	DUMMY VARIABLES
dc.subject	ECONOMIC CHANGE
dc.subject	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	EDUCATED MEN
dc.subject	EDUCATED WOMEN
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subject	EPIDEMIC
dc.subject	EQUATIONS
dc.subject	EXCESS MORTALITY
dc.subject	FAMILIES
dc.subject	FAMILY PLANNING
dc.subject	FEMALE MORTALITY
dc.subject	FERTILITY
dc.subject	GENDER GAP
dc.subject	GENDER GAPS
dc.subject	GENOCIDE
dc.subject	GLOBAL AIDS EPIDEMIC
dc.subject	HEALTH POLICY
dc.subject	HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subject	HIV
dc.subject	HIV INFECTION
dc.subject	HIV/AIDS
dc.subject	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	IMMUNIZATION
dc.subject	INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject	LEVEL OF EDUCATION
dc.subject	LEVELS OF MORTALITY
dc.subject	MALE MORTALITY
dc.subject	MALES
dc.subject	MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	MARRIED WOMEN
dc.subject	MATERNAL MORTALITY
dc.subject	MODERN CONTRACEPTION
dc.subject	MORTALITY DECLINES
dc.subject	MORTALITY LEVELS
dc.subject	MORTALITY RATE
dc.subject	MORTALITY RATES
dc.subject	MOTHER
dc.subject	MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
dc.subject	NATIONAL LEVEL
dc.subject	NUMBER OF CHILDREN
dc.subject	NUMBER OF DEATHS
dc.subject	NUTRITION
dc.subject	PANDEMIC
dc.subject	POLICY DISCUSSIONS
dc.subject	POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subject	POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
dc.subject	POOR HEALTH
dc.subject	POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	POPULATION HEALTH
dc.subject	POPULATION STUDIES
dc.subject	POPULATION SUBGROUP
dc.subject	PREDICTIONS
dc.subject	PREMATURE ADULT MORTALITY
dc.subject	PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	PRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subject	PRIMARY SCHOOLING
dc.subject	PROBABILITIES
dc.subject	PROBABILITY
dc.subject	PROGRESS
dc.subject	PUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subject	PUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subject	REGISTRATION SYSTEMS
dc.subject	REGRESSION ANALYSES
dc.subject	RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS
dc.subject	RURAL AREAS
dc.subject	RURAL RESIDENCE
dc.subject	RURAL WOMEN
dc.subject	SECONDARY EDUCATION
dc.subject	SEX
dc.subject	SEXUAL ACTIVITY
dc.subject	SIBLINGS
dc.subject	SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENCES
dc.subject	SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
dc.subject	STANDARD ERRORS
dc.subject	URBAN AREAS
dc.subject	URBAN WOMEN
dc.subject	URBANIZATION
dc.subject	VIOLENCE
dc.subject	YOUNG WOMEN
dc.subject	Microdata Set
dc.title	Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality around the Developing World
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
dc.type	Publications & Research
dc.coverage	Africa
dc.coverage	Africa
dc.coverage	The World Region
dc.coverage	The World Region