Social class, gender and intrahousehold food allocations to children in South Asia

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1685-1695

  Miller, Barbara D ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Female discrimination; Intrahousehold food allocation; Nutritional anthropology; Poverty and child survival; South Asia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; DIETARY INTAKE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POVERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH ASIA;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; SEX; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

FOOD ALLOCATION; GENDER BIAS; INTRA-HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY; SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION;

ASIA, (SOUTH);

EID: 0030619328     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00371-1     Document Type: Article

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