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Under-Five Child Poverty and Income Inequality in South Africa: A Multidimensional Perspective at the Lowest Geographic Areas

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By Olufunke Alaba
| MDPI
4. Results and Discussion 4.1. Raw Headcount or Incidence of Deprivation 4.1.1. Income and Material Deprivation Table 3, Table 4 and Table 5 show the raw headcount of poverty per dimension or deprivation. Table 3 shows that at the national level, 59% percent of children are living below the upper bound poverty line (UBPL) and they do not have access to information. This is consistent with the findings of [36]; they also found that children have lower access to basic services.
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IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Assessing Medical Students’ Preferences for Rural Internships Using a Discrete Choice Experiment: A Case Study of Medical Students in a Public University in the Western Cape

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By Maria Jose, Amarech Obse, Mark Zuidgeest, Olufunke Alaba
| MDPI
4. Discussion This study showed the relative valuation of rural health facility characteristics by medical students in the context where medical students must choose a rural facility among competing rural internship jobs. The medical students from one of the public universities in the Western Cape province of South Africa were chosen as the case study due to the university’s significant contribution to medical graduates annually.
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Socio-Economic Inequalities in the Double Burden of Malnutrition among under-Five Children: Evidence from 10 Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries

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By Olufunke Alaba, Plaxcedes Chiwire, Aggrey Siya, Oluremi A. Saliu
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Abstract : Background: Africa is unlikely to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 due to public health problems such as the double burden of malnutrition (DBM). Thus, the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of DBM and degree of socio-economic inequality in double burden of malnutrition among children under 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: This study used multi-country data collected by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program.
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