Excess under-5 female mortality across India: a spatial analysis using 2011 census data

Summary: Background: Excess female mortality causes half of the missing women (estimated deficit of women in countries with suspiciously low proportion of females in their population) today. Globally, most of these avoidable deaths of women occur during childhood in China and India. We aimed to est...

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Main Authors: Christophe Z Guilmoto, PhD, Nandita Saikia, PhD, Vandana Tamrakar, MPhil, Jayanta Kumar Bora, MSc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-06-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X18301840

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