Increasing socioeconomic inequality in childhood undernutrition in urban India: Trends between 1992-93, 1998-99 and 2005-06

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1003-1016

  Kumar, Abhishek ^a   Kumari, Divya ^a   Singh, Aditya ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentration index; pooled logistic regression; socioeconomic inequality; undernutrition; urban India

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84943556871     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu104     Document Type: Article

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