Sex-selective abortion in India
Subtitle: the impact on child mortality
By: Mary Elizabeth Shepherd.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Youngstown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781934043691
Subjects: Abortion -- India -- Statistics; Sex preselection; Children -- Mortality -- India; Abortion, Induced -- India -- Statistics; Sex Factors -- India -- Statistics; Child -- India; Child Mortality -- India; Infant -- India; Morbidity -- India -- Statistics; Prejudice -- India; Sex Ratio -- India -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Background on population sex ratio; title: Conceptual framework; title: Research methods; title: Characteristics associated with male birth proportion; title: The effect of prenatal sex selection on gender differentials in mortality; title: The effect of prenatal sex selection on gender differentials in health care and morbidity; title: Discussion and conclusions.