Are Indian girls really better nourished than Indian boys? Evidence from Indian National Family Health Survey 1992–2016
Objective: Studies on child malnutrition find no evidence of gender difference in childhood stunting (48% for both boys and girls) in India. Several States show a better nutritional status of girls than boys. Therefore, we argued that in an environment of high mortality among girls, the surviving gi...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398420302153 |