Place, community education, gender and child mortality in North-East India

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-76

  Ladusingh, Laishram ^a   Singh, Chungkham Holendro ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Community education; Household hygiene; Northeast India

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD MORTALITY; EDUCATION; GENDER ROLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 31544434910     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.393     Document Type: Article

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