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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics Advance Access published online on June 3, 2008
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, doi:10.1093/tropej/fmn041
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Residential Area as Proxy for Socio-economic Status, Paediatric Mortality and Birth Weight in Lusaka, Zambia

A. J. Masiya Mweembaa and Elspeth Webbb

aRoyal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey, Liverpool, UK
bCollege of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Correspondence: Dr A. J. Masiya Mweemba, Department of Community Child Health, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK. E-mail <ajmasiya{at}aol.com>.


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Systems of socio-economic classification comparable to the Registrar General's Social Classification or post codes are not readily available in many developing countries. Thus health data from developing countries are usually presented without a refined geographical focus. The hierarchical urban residential classification system in Zambia was used as a socio-economic proxy to explore the relationship with mass measures of paediatric health in Lusaka, Zambia. This study shows that the Zambian urban residential classification system appears to be a valid proxy of socio-economic status, revealing residential gradients with respect to birth weight and paediatric mortality rates in Lusaka.


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