Seaman J, Holt J, Rivers J
Int J Epidemiol. 1978 Mar;7(1):31-40. doi: 10.1093/ije/7.1.31.
In mid 1974 the authors conducted a survey of Harerghe Province, Ethiopia in order to verify reports of serious effects of drought six months earlier. Information was obtained on anthropometric nutritional status, mortality, livestock, and market prices from a random sample of 62 villages in four ecological zones - the highlands, the northern and southern rangelands and an intermediate zone of mixed economy. The rangelands and intermediate areas had experienced heavy human and livestock losses during the drought but this had not occurred in the highlands. Although a high prevalence of malnutrition was found in every area studied, the geographical and height distribution of malnutrition within population groups suggested that this could only be clearly attributed to the effects of unusual food shortage in one part of the southern rangelands.
1974年年中，作者对埃塞俄比亚的哈勒尔格省进行了一项调查，以核实六个月前有关干旱造成严重影响的报告。从四个生态区（高地、北部和南部牧场以及混合经济中间地带）的62个村庄的随机样本中获取了有关人体测量营养状况、死亡率、牲畜和市场价格的信息。牧场和中间地带在干旱期间经历了严重的人畜损失，但高地并未出现这种情况。尽管在所研究的每个地区都发现营养不良的患病率很高，但人群中营养不良的地理和身高分布表明，这只能明确归因于南部牧场一部分地区异常粮食短缺的影响。
