Moving beyond the mother-child dyad: Women's education, child immunization, and the importance of context in rural India

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 989-1000

  Parashar, Sangeeta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Child immunization; India; Multilevel modeling; Women's education

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH IMPACT; IMMUNIZATION; MOTHERS EDUCATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; EMPIRICISM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; READING; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INDIA; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 20444369518     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.12.023     Document Type: Article

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