Selective Adult Migration and Urban-Rural Mortality Differentials in Burkina Faso

Adult mortality in developing countries is always higher in rural areas than in towns and cities. This disadvantage is attributed to more unfavourable health and economic conditions in rural areas, as well as to differences in population structure. However, the migration flows to cities that accompa...

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Published in:Population (France) 2017-04, Vol.72 (2), p.197
Main Authors: Lankoande, Bruno, Sié, Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Alcohol
Behavior change
Body mass index
Cardiovascular disease
Cities
Consumption
Courts
Demographics
Demography
Developing countries
Economic conditions
Epidemiology
Exercise
Geographic mobility
Health disparities
Health risk assessment
Health risks
Health surveillance
Hypotheses
Illnesses
Immunization
Inequalities
LDCs
Migrants
Migration
Mortality
Navigation behavior
Nets
Obesity
Population
Population structure
Public health
Residence
Rural areas
Rural communities
Selection effects
Socioeconomic factors
Surveillance
Towns
Urban areas
Urbanism
Urbanization
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Summary:Adult mortality in developing countries is always higher in rural areas than in towns and cities. This disadvantage is attributed to more unfavourable health and economic conditions in rural areas, as well as to differences in population structure. However, the migration flows to cities that accompany urbanization may modify the composition of the populations in the areas of origin and destination. Using data from two demographic surveillance sites in Burkina Faso, one rural and the other urban, Bruno LANKOANDÉ and Ali SIÉ inquire here into the role that these population transfers can play in influencing the urban-rural mortality differential. Rural dwellers who migrate to town, as well as those who subsequently return home, are potentially selected in terms of health. To these selection effects are added behavioural changes that occur as migrants adapt to urban life. The links between migration and health turn out to be very complex, and data collected at origin and destination shed new light on health inequalities between urban and rural places of residence.
ISSN:0032-4663
1957-7966
DOI:10.3917/pope.1702.0197