Add to ORKGABSTRACT. That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabili-ties, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing women phenomenon. There are approximately 1.5 million missing women of adult age each year. We find that more than 40 % of these missing women of adult age can be attributed to not being married. These estimates vary by region. In India and other parts of ...
A total of 542 women aged 15 to 44 years died during the 10-year period 1976 to 1985 in the control ...
Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, parti...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...
That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documen...
Relative to developed countries and some parts of the developing world, most notably sub-Saharan Afr...
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that...
Sex-based discrimination has resulted in severe demographic imbalances between males and females, cu...
Sex-based discrimination has resulted in severe demographic imbalances between males and females, cu...
This paper shows that the universal female survival advantage evades all the countries of South Asia...
An objective of our paper is to assess missing women by disease, as well provide an estimate of the ...
Using longitudinal data collected between 1999 and 2006 for Agincourt Demographic Surveillance Area ...
This paper uses prospective data to show that older widowed and divorced individuals in rural Bangla...
This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by s...
Are adverse sex ratios in India largely due to intra-household discrimination of females? Received w...
Background: Adult deaths are a crucial priority for global health. Causes of adult death are importa...
A total of 542 women aged 15 to 44 years died during the 10-year period 1976 to 1985 in the control ...
Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, parti...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...
That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documen...
Relative to developed countries and some parts of the developing world, most notably sub-Saharan Afr...
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that...
Sex-based discrimination has resulted in severe demographic imbalances between males and females, cu...
Sex-based discrimination has resulted in severe demographic imbalances between males and females, cu...
This paper shows that the universal female survival advantage evades all the countries of South Asia...
An objective of our paper is to assess missing women by disease, as well provide an estimate of the ...
Using longitudinal data collected between 1999 and 2006 for Agincourt Demographic Surveillance Area ...
This paper uses prospective data to show that older widowed and divorced individuals in rural Bangla...
This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by s...
Are adverse sex ratios in India largely due to intra-household discrimination of females? Received w...
Background: Adult deaths are a crucial priority for global health. Causes of adult death are importa...
A total of 542 women aged 15 to 44 years died during the 10-year period 1976 to 1985 in the control ...
Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, parti...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...