Arokiasamy Perianayagam.- Regional Patterns of Sex Bias and Excess Female Child Mortality in India Using data from the National Family Health Survey of India (1992-93), this analysis documents evidence about the regional pattern of discrimination in the provision of child health care for female children in India. This discrimination is a contributing factor to the 60-65% excess female child mortality occurring in the states of the northern and north-central regions of India. Sex bias in child mortality follows a regional pattern, clearly illustrated by the sex- specific rank of children in families. In the northern and north-central regions, female child mortality compared with boys of respective rank is about one-third higher for the first...
Son preference, or the privileging of sons over daughters in accordance to a patriarchal system, is ...
Abstract Gender disparities in child undernutrition and mortality in India have been a topic of inte...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Strong preference for sons in...
Arokiasamy Perianayagam.- Regional Patterns of Sex Bias and Excess Female Child Mortality in India U...
Arokiasamy Perianayagam.- Regional Patterns of Sex Bias in Child Health Care and Excess Female Child...
As observed with many indicators, there is substantial spatial variation in gender bias in child mor...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...
Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literat...
Health being one of the most basic capabilities, the removal of gender bias in child health can go a...
In this paper the authors examine levels and trends of estimated sex ratios at birth (SRB) and sex r...
Half a million girls a year are sex-selectively aborted in India (Jha et al., 2006); many others nev...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...
With poverty studies having shifted their focus from household poverty to individual poverty, a numb...
With poverty studies having shifted their focus from household poverty to individual poverty, a numb...
Using evidence from a number of sources (including the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India, prior resear...
Son preference, or the privileging of sons over daughters in accordance to a patriarchal system, is ...
Abstract Gender disparities in child undernutrition and mortality in India have been a topic of inte...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Strong preference for sons in...
Arokiasamy Perianayagam.- Regional Patterns of Sex Bias and Excess Female Child Mortality in India U...
Arokiasamy Perianayagam.- Regional Patterns of Sex Bias in Child Health Care and Excess Female Child...
As observed with many indicators, there is substantial spatial variation in gender bias in child mor...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...
Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literat...
Health being one of the most basic capabilities, the removal of gender bias in child health can go a...
In this paper the authors examine levels and trends of estimated sex ratios at birth (SRB) and sex r...
Half a million girls a year are sex-selectively aborted in India (Jha et al., 2006); many others nev...
Background Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in c...
With poverty studies having shifted their focus from household poverty to individual poverty, a numb...
With poverty studies having shifted their focus from household poverty to individual poverty, a numb...
Using evidence from a number of sources (including the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India, prior resear...
Son preference, or the privileging of sons over daughters in accordance to a patriarchal system, is ...
Abstract Gender disparities in child undernutrition and mortality in India have been a topic of inte...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Strong preference for sons in...