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• Title: Mechanisms of Racial Inequalities in Prevalence of Diarrhoea in South Africa (Report)
• Author : Journal of Health Population and Nutrition
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 245 KB

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INTRODUCTION South Africa is the fifth most unequal society in the world, as measured by the Gini coefficient (1). Racial inequalities are particularly marked as a consequence of decades of apartheid policies, which essentially served to benefit the white minority at the expense of so-called non-white groups (2). Using data from the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS), this paper examines the mechanisms of racial disparities in the prevalence of diarrhoea among children aged less than five years. Diarrhoea is one of the five most common illnesses and is also one of the major causes of death among infants and children aged less than five years in South Africa, accounting for 16% of infant deaths and 20% of all child deaths in 1995 (3). Moreover, substantial racial disparities in the prevalence of diarrhoea exist, with the black:white rate ratio amounting to 6.5 in 1998 (4).

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