Infant mortality, the birth rate, and development in Egypt

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Title:	Infant mortality, the birth rate, and development in Egypt
Authors:	Field, John Osgood Ropes, George
Year:	1980
Periodical:	L'Égypte contemporaine
Volume:	71
Issue:	381
Pages:	213-265
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Egypt
Subjects:	child mortality demographic change
Abstract:	Principal concern of this paper lay in exploring the way in which infant mortality and the birth rate are each affected by such attributes of Egyptian society as population density, literacy, urbanisation, and the availability of purified drinking water. In effect, the authors have sought to relate births and infant deaths to the socio-economic context in which they vary. Analysis of the patterns discerned comprise the core of this study. As this study demonstrates, Egypt's ability to complete the demographic transition with reasonable speed will depend, in significant measure, on the Ministry's effectiveness in reaching both the urban poor and the felahin with services which save children already born and which reduce the psychological incentive to have more. Fig., notes, tab.