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Essays on disease-related working-age adult mortality: Evidence from rural Kenya.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays on disease-related working-age adult mortality: Evidence from rural Kenya./
作者:	Kirimi, Lilian Wambui.
面頁冊數:	158 p.
附註:	Adviser: Thomas S. Jayne.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-02A.
標題:	Economics, Agricultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3348140
ISBN:	9781109036626

Essays on disease-related working-age adult mortality: Evidence from rural Kenya.
Kirimi, Lilian Wambui.

Essays on disease-related working-age adult mortality: Evidence from rural Kenya. - 158 p.

Adviser: Thomas S. Jayne.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2008.

The onset of HIV/AIDS has led to a remarkable increase in working-age adult mortality. Using a nationally representative panel data of rural Kenyan farm households surveyed between 1997 and 2007, the first essay of this dissertation examines whether the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and adult mortality has changed over this period. Hazard analysis is applied to a 10-year period data of 5,755 working-age adults. There is a downward trend in the risk of working-age adult mortality across the observation period, with the decline being faster for men than women. In the early stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, wealthier, more educated individuals, those who were mobile and spent extended periods of time away from home were more likely to die of HIV/AIDS-related diseases. A comparison between the findings within the 10-year period and the early stages reveals that the relationship has changed in a number of ways. First, the hazard of death varies only slightly by wealth status and there is a weak significant shift toward an inverse relationship between asset value and mortality in some periods. Second, the hazard of death is converging among men of all education levels. Third, the risk and spread of HIV/AIDS is no longer related to mobility and spending time away from home. Fourth, relative remoteness and isolation from the initial epicenter of HIV/AIDS is no longer associated with lower HIV infection and hazard of death. These changes suggest that over time, mortality risks are converging among groups that could in the past be clearly distinguished with regard to the likelihood HIV infection and AIDS-related mortality.

ISBN: 9781109036626Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

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