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Research Issues in Child Health and Child Care : proceedings

The proceedings discuss methodological and conceptual issues in the study of infant and child health and mortality, and identify new research needs. Health and social scientists from the Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone contributed the papers which emphasize the evaluation of research design and procedures for analyzing the determinants of child health rather than the presentation of findings. The presentations focus on four central themes : conceptual frameworks more appropriate to local contexts, questions of scale and measurement, the search for indicators of child health, and direc…