Health and nutritional status : of the Nilotic population in the Southern Sudan

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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 302 pages
Poids : 475 g
Dimensions : 16cm X 24cm
ISBN : 978-2-343-12837-5
EAN : 9782343128375

Health and nutritional status

of the Nilotic population in the Southern Sudan

De Zygmunt Léonidas Ostrowski,

Chez L'Harmattan

Paru le 27/07/2017

Broché 302 pages

preface Gasim Badri

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Quatrième de couverture

Health and nutritional status

Of the nilotic population in the southern sudan

This book presents the results of a large study on the health and nutritional status of a significant sample of a southern Sudanese population belonging to three Nilotic tribes (Dinka, Nuer and Shilluk), realized between 1979 and 1984, in the Upper Nile State. Three studies were carried out : a cross-sectional study, a longitudinal study of 364 pregnant women and their newborn child until age 3, as well as a survey concerned the traditional way of life and believes and the socio-cultural aspects.

In 1979, this population still lived in a very traditional way and were subject to rapid changes due to the construction of the 365 km long Jonglei canal.

The study was interrupted by the civil war, in February 1984.

Biographie

Dr Zygmunt L. Ostrowski, pediatrician in Paris, Master in African Sciences (University in Warsaw), past consultant of the World Health Organization, president of ADE, a scientific and humanitarian NGO. He directed scientific studies in South-Sudan in collaboration with a French-Sudanese team as well as in three European countries. He has published several scientific and geopolitical books. For his last book « Sudan-On the brink of peace... », Dr Zygmunt L. Ostrowski shared the Henri Duveyrier Price, 2007 from the French Geographic Society.