title: Excess female child mortality in the developing world during the 1970s and 1980s.
abstract: "How did...excess female child mortality evolve from the 1970s to the 1980s, during a period when mortality declined significantly? Is there a relationship between the intensity of the phenomenon and levels of mortality or certain social development indicators? These are some of the questions which the article discusses on the basis of reliable and comparable data taken from approximately 60 [developing] countries."
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D007226:Infant Mortality; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012737:Sex Factors; D012922:Social Change
keywords: Child Mortality--women; Comparative Studies; Cross-cultural Comparisons; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Differential Mortality--determinants; Economic Factors; Excess Mortality--women; Mortality; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Sex Factors; Social Development; Studies