'Looking beyond the male-female dichotomy' - Sibling composition and child immunization in India, 1992-2006

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-153

  Singh, Prashant Kumar ^a,b   Parasuraman, Sulabha ^b  

^a Institute for Human Development   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Child immunization; Gender; India; Sibling composition

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; GENDER; IMMUNIZATION; SIBLING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

INDIA;

CHILD IMMUNIZATION; GENDER; INDIA; SIBLING COMPOSITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SIBLINGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896905752     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.017     Document Type: Article

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