Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India.
This study investigates disparities in child height-an important marker of population-level health-among population groups in rural India. India is an informative context in which to study processes of health disparities because of wide heterogeneity in the degree of local segregation or integration...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 1427 - 1453 |
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