Socio-economic Status and Clustering of Child Deaths in Rural Punjab

Population Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-202

  Gupta, Monica Das ^a  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD MORTALITY; MORTALITY CLUSTERING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

INDIA, PUNJAB;

EID: 0031415705     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472031000149906     Document Type: Article

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