Where health care has no access: the nomadic populations of sub-Saharan Africa
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Where health care has no access: the nomadic populations of sub-Saharan Africa.
Nomadic and seminomadic pastoralists make optimal use of scarce water and pasture in the arid regions south of the Sahara desert, spreading from Mauretania in the west to Somalia in East Africa. We attempted to summarize the fragmentary evidence from the literature on the health status of these populations and to assess the best ways to provide them with modern health care. Infant mortality is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine and International Health
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1360-2276,1365-3156
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00473.x