An integration of demographic and epidemiologic research on mortality in Kenya.

Abstract

Kenya is unique in sub-Saharan Africa in the rich diversity of its demographic and epidemiologic data. Various researchers have estimated the trends and geographic differentials in mortality, studied socio-economic differentials, examined national-level data on cause of death or measured the importance of various diseases in clinic populations or in small study areas. In 1974, a book entitled Health and Disease in Kenya summarized the epidemiologic research on each of the major and many minor causes of death and illness in Kenya (Vogel and others, 1974). It pulls together a wealth of information on many diseases from many varied sources and is an invaluable resource. The present paper differs from Health and Disease in Kenya in several important respects. First, it deals only