Socioeconomic stress, health and child nutritional status in Zimbabwe at a time of economic structural adjustment : a three-year longitudinal study

• This report intervenes in the debate on the implications of structural adjustment for the social sector in Africa. It finds a strong association between structural adjustment implementation and a sharp deterioration both in the household economy and in the health status of the working poor in urban and rural Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe; Southern Africa; Structural adjustment; Child health; Child nutrition

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