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Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel : Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities.
This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst peo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- COVER; POPULATION, HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN THE SAHEL: Issues in the welfare of selected West African communities; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; DRAWINGS; PREFACE; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF THE DEMOCRAPHY OF SAHELLIAN PASTORALISTS AND AGRO-PASTORALISTS; CHAPTER 2 THE RECENT DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYS IN MALI AND THEIR MAIN FINDINGS; CHAPTER 3 THE ENUMERATION OF NOMADS AND SEMI-NOMADS: METHODOLOGY AND SELECTED RESULTS FROM THE 1976 CENSUS OF MALI.
- Chapter 4 a demographic profile of the fulani of central mali with special emphasis on infant and child mortalitychapter 5 demographic characteristics and trends amongst the nomads of mauritania; chapter 6 mixed herding and the demographic parameters of domestic animals in arid and semi-arid zones of tropical africa; chapter 7 land tenure and development problems in mali: the case of the niger delta; chapter 8 the reluctant spouse and the illegitimate slave: marriage, household formation and demographic behaviour amongst malian tamesheq from the niger delta and the gourma.
- Chapter 9 child mortality and care of children in rural malichapter 10 nutrition amongst a group of wodaabe (bororo) pastoralists in niger; chapter 11 preliminary findings on the diet and nutritional status of some tamasheq and fulani groups in the niger delta of central mali; chapter 12 assessing the components of seasonal stress amongst fulani of the seno-mango, central mali; chapter 13 design of a food intake study in two bambara villages in the segou region of mali with preliminary findings; chapter 14 the health of nomads and semi-nomads of the malian gourma: an epidemiological approach.
- Chapter 15 the world fertility survey: questionnaires and analysis with special reference to africareferences; about the authors; list of participants at the meeting on the demography, social structure and welfare of sahelian pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, bamako 24-27 january 1983; index.