Death clustering, Mothers’ education and the determinants of child mortality in rural Punjab, India

Population Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 489-505

  Das Gupta, Monica ^a,b  

^a National Council of Applied Economic Research   (India)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL FACTOR; CHILD MORTALITY; DEATH CLUSTERING; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; MORTALITY CLUSTERS; MOTHERS' EDUCATION; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; WOMEN'S STATUS;

INDIA, PUNJAB;

EID: 0025626527     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472031000144866     Document Type: Article

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