Social analysis of sex imbalance in India: Betore and after the implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-252

  Subramanian, S V ^a   Selvaraj, S ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH AND SAFETY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGULATORY APPROACH; SEX DETERMINATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX PRESELECTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 62449302403     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.078477     Document Type: Article

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