Download or read book Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Health in Africa written by François Pathé Diop and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the economic crisis of the 1980s in Sub-Saharan Africa increased mortality or at least reduced its rate of decline? Nationally, no. But the urban poor suffered more, the rural nonpoor less.