Do girls have a nutritional disadvantage compared with boys? Statistical models of breastfeeding and food consumption inequalities among indian siblings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Fledderjohann, Jasmine ^a   Agrawal, Sutapa ^b   Vellakkal, Sukumar ^a,b   Basu, Sanjay ^c   Campbell, Oona ^d   Doyle, Pat ^d   Ebrahim, Shah ^b,d   Stuckler, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MILK; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA; INDIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; ODDS RATIO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION SURVEYS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84907191485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107172     Document Type: Article

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