title: Land tenure and child health in Rio Grande do Sul: the relationship between agricultural production, malnutrition and mortality.
abstract: "Four different approaches were applied to test the hypothesis that patterns of land tenure and agricultural production in Rio Grande do Sul [Brazil] are important infant mortality determinants. These studies have employed various data sources on distinct analytical levels....  The results...provide reliable evidence of there being a strong relationship between the degree of concentration of land tenure and agricultural production on the one hand, and malnutrition and infant mortality on the other."
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000569:Americas; D001938:Brazil; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004194:Disease; D004467:Economics; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007843:Latin America; D009026:Mortality; D009748:Nutrition Disorders; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012939:Social Planning; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013020:South America
keywords: Agricultural Development; Americas; Brazil; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Diseases; Economic Factors; Infant Mortality; Land Tenure; Latin America; Macroeconomic Factors; Malnutrition; Mortality; Nutrition Disorders; Population; Population Dynamics; Production; Rural Development; Socioeconomic Factors; South America