Trends of non-communicable diseases and public health concerns of the people of northeastern Nigeria amidst the Boko Haram insurgency

Adamu, Muminu O.; Okagbue, Hilary I.; Akinwumi, I. I.; Idowu, Chiazor

doi:10.1007/s10389-019-01157-2

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“…For example, inadequate supply of health services could increase the frequencies of illnesses and draw down on household food consumption budget. Incidentally, cases of epidemics are already being reported in communities exposed to the Boko Haram conict (Adamu et al, 2019).…”

Section: Relating the Conict Food Security And Resilience Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Restricting the main estimations to waves 1 & 2, the dichotomy of exposed and control groups is determined by time of exposure as follows; the households that are exposed to events occurring during the time interval between waves 1 & 2 are designated as exposed group, while the rest exposed to events occurring between waves 2 & 3 are the control group. 3 . Under this restriction, the control group is strictly exposed between waves 2 & 3, whereas the exposed group is allowed to include certain households that were exposed consecutively in the two periods.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Buers above 7KM do not give room to separate the exposed and control groups, because then nearly all the relevant data points fall within the buer at any given event-date combination3 Note that households in this second group will be exposed in the future but remain unexposed as at the time of the estimations…”

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The Boko Haram Conflict and Food Insecurity: Does Resilience Capacity Matter?

Agwu

2022

Journal of African Economies

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Drawing from a robust identification strategy and household panel data collected before and after households were exposed to the Boko Haram conflict, this paper addresses the question of whether resilience capacity is an important factor in mitigating household risks of food insecurity due to conflict shocks. Using the non-parametric difference-in-differences framework, the paper identifies that the shocks negatively affect food security, but resilience capacity attenuates the effects. While resilience actively protects households from the adverse stressors, the paper observes that the pillars of resilience were also significantly decimated by the conflict, thereby weakening households’ long-run capacity to withstand future shocks. The results are prescriptively unchanged after adjusting the operating spatial distance of exposure or switching the measure of conflict exposure to conflict intensity represented as battle fatalities. These estimates align well with the various hypotheses of the resilience approach to sustainable development. It is, therefore, recommended that conflict intervention programs incorporate rebuilding resilience, which might help restore households’ ability to overcome future shocks.

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Section: Relating the Conict Food Security And Resilience Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conict In the Neighbourhood Of Householdsmentioning

confidence: 99%