title: Socio-economic development and the dynamics of child mortality among sedentarizing Bedouin in Israel.
abstract: The authors analyze trends in child mortality among the Bedouin in Israel, who are in the process of changing from a nomadic to a sedentary way of life.  "At early stages of sedentarization and development, child mortality rates decline, as expected, then rise, only to decline again.  The positive relationship that is theoretically assumed to exist in general between declining child mortality and socio-economic development over time and space may thus possibly be refined, to accompany an earlier similar refinement regarding fertility decline.  Demographic indicators may consequently respond late to development processes."
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007557:Israel; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Child Mortality; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Israel; Mediterranean Countries; Migrants; Migration; Mortality; Nomads; Population; Population Dynamics; Social Development; Socioeconomic Factors; Western Asia