Childhood and youth in a population of the Shendi area (Sudan).

Abstract

This report provides actual information on birth, infancy childhood, and puberty, as well as the development until the marriageable age with respect to customs, ethnic, religious, and social factors of a population in the Shendi area (Sudan) sampled in the village of Umm'Ali: Informations of this nature might be important in view of planning, performance, and efficiency of medical and other measures of health policy directed on special populations.