Urban Child Poverty, Health, and Survival in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Tuesday, 4th of October 2016

Urban Child Poverty, Health, and Survival in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Excerpt below; full text is at https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/CR40/CR40.pdf

“Overall, there appear to be numerous health advantages to living in an urban areas, but these advantages are not conferred to all children. In survival, we see stark disparities across levels of poverty. For all indicators, the urban extremely poor children fare better than their rural extremely poor counterparts, but not as well as non-poor rural children. Despite the narrowing of gaps in many health outcomes between poor and non-poor and between urban and rural areas, the persistence of poverty and increases in extreme poverty in large cities in low- and middle-income countries remain cause for concern.”