Illegal dumping during road construction in Ethiopia affects child mortality

ENN
Aug 24, 2017, 11:15 am49 pts
The research shows that an additional road built within five kilometres increases the probability that a mother experiences an infant death by three percentage points from 8.5 per cent to 11.5 per cent The research team also found that children under the age of five living near a recently built road have a…

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