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BMJ
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Reza, Avid ; Tomczyk, Basia ; Aguayo, Victor M ; Zagré, Noel M ; Goumbi, Kadadé ; ... More +
Reza, Avid ; Tomczyk, Basia ; Aguayo, Victor M ; Zagré, Noel M ; Goumbi, Kadadé ; Blanton, Curtis ; Talley, Leisel Less -
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To apply the famine scale by Howe and Devereux to the situation in Niger, west Africa, in 2005 to retrospectively determine whether famine existed.|Two stage cluster survey.|Survey of households in each of Niger's eight regions.|4003 households.|Crude mortality, mortality in children under 5, and the proportion of caregivers both nationally and regionally adopting coping strategies to deal with insufficient food needs.|The estimated national crude mortality rate was 0.4 (0.4 to 0.5) deaths per 10,000 per day and under 5 mortality rate was 1.7 (1.4 to 1.9) deaths per 10,000 per day. Nationally, 22.3% (95% confidence interval 19.9% to 24.8%) of caregivers of under 5s did not resort to any coping strategies to deal with insufficient food needs. Reversible coping strategies were, however, used by 5.8% (4.7% to 7.0%) of caregivers, whereas 49.4% (46.9% to 51.8%) relied on irreversible coping strategies and 22.6% (20.0% to 25.4%) on survival strategies.|On the basis of the famine scale proposed by Howe and Devereux, most regions in Niger experienced food crisis conditions and some areas approached famine proportions.
Subject:
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Adaptation, Psychological
Caregivers
Child, Preschool
Cluster Analysis
Food Supply
Humans
Infant
Niger
Research
Retrospective Studies
Rural Health
Starvation
Survival Rate

Source:
BMJ. 2008; 337.
Document Type:
Journal Article
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CDC Public Access
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urn:sha256:60f870991333898501fd07d4022823e40d3690cab5402d294e669b07f1adb117
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