Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Rural India - Hardcover

Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Rural India [Hardcover]

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Language: English. This book which is based on the NFHSI data focuses on the differentials and determinants of Infant and Child Mortality among three different under5 mortality groups of states in rural India. The book first deals with the differentials in the housing characteristics, fertility behaviour of women, utilization of maternal area services, immunization and breast feeding practices and nutritional status of children among the three morality group of states. In the next stage, the levels, trends and differentials in infant and child mortality among the three mortality group of states are presented in detail. In the final stage multivariate analysis has been carried out to assess the effect of various socioeconomic and maternal cream variables on infant and child mortality in rural India. This book will be very useful to the researchers, policy makers, with the programmes and research aimed to reduce Infant and Child Mortality in Rural India. About The Author: Dr. S. Gunasekaran, is basically a statistician (M.S.c. Statistics) and had his training in demography (MS.c. Demography) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, U.K. He has completed his Ph. D. in Population studies in the Department of Population Studies at Sri Venkateswara University, Tripuati. He has earlier worked in the Population Research Centre (PRC) of the Government of India attached to the Gandhigram Institute of Rural heath and Family Welfare Trust and now he is working as Reader in the Department of Applied Research at Gandhigram Rural University, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been involved in a number of research projects sponsored by various national and international agencies such as government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants Commission, Indian Council of Medical Research, UNICEF, UNESCO, etc. So far he has successfully completed more than 25 research projects. He is a member in a number of professional forums like International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), Population and Environment Research Network (PERN), Asia Population Network (APN). He has published Population Network (APN). He has published a number of articles on Population and Reproductive Health. Contents: List of Tables ¥ List of Figures ¥ List of Abbreviation ¥ Preface ¥ Introduction ¥ Review of Literature ¥ Methodology ¥ Housing characteristics of Mortality Groups ¥ Fertility Behaviour of Women ¥Utilisation of Maternal Health Care Services ¥ Immuizatioin and Breast Feeding Practices ¥ Differentials in the Nutritional Status of Children ¥ Levels, Trends and Differentials of Infant and Child Mortality ¥ Multivalidate Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality ¥ Summary Findings and Policy Implications ¥ Appendix Ð A : Study design of National Family Health Survey of India, 199293. ¥ AppendixB: List of variables and scoring used for the development of standard of living index ¥ Bibliography ¥ Index. The Title 'Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Rural India written/authored/edited by S. Gunasekaran', published in the year 2008. The ISBN 9788178357096 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 322 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Children Studies / Rural Development. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms 322. Artikel-Nr. 1111008615109

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