caa a22 4500 386396884 CHVBK 20180307112141.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000018046 doi S0021932000018046 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000018046 Tawiah E. O. Department of Sociology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Child mortality differentials in Ghana: a preliminary report [Elektronische Daten] [E. O. Tawiah] The relationship is examined of child mortality in Ghana with six socioeconomic factors: mother's type of place of residence, education, occupation and work status, and current husband's education and occupation. Using data from the 1979-80 Ghana Fertility Survey, Trussell's marriage duration model was employed to estimate probabilities of dying at exact ages 2 and 5 in different population subgroups. The two education variables (mother's and husband's education) have the largest effect on child mortality, followed by husband's occupation and mother's occupation, in that order. In order to reduce child mortality to tolerable levels, expansion is urgently required of the medical and health services, balanced by an equal development of education, particularly of girls, help being given especially to the rural areas where the majority of the population live. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989-07), 349-355 0021-9320 21:3<349 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000018046 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000018046 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tawiah E. O. Department of Sociology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/3(1989-07), 349-355 0021-9320 21:3<349 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge