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Disabled Elderly in India
Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2007
Very few studies show the association between gender, marital status, living arrangements and disability among older adults in India. The study seeks to understand the gender, marital status, usual activity and extent of disability of the disabled elderly according to their place of residence...
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India Migration Bibliography
Tumbe, Chinmay - eSocialSciences - 2013
The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides sections with selected publications by themes,...
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The Determinants of Mortality
Cutler, David M.; Deaton, Angus S.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - eSocialSciences - 2006
years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least … technical progress (some of which is induced by income and facilitated by education) as the ultimate determinant of health. Such … downplay direct causal mechanisms running from income to health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341776
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National Policy for Senior Citizens: 2011
Justice, Ministry of Social; GOI, Empowerment - eSocialSciences - 2011
. Social deprivations and exclusion, privatization of health services and changing pattern of morbidity affect the elderly. All …
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Book Review: ‘Missing Girls’: Many Approaches to an Understanding
Unisa, Sayeed; Reshmi, R. S. - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Sex- Selective Abortion in India –Gender, Society, and New Reproductive Technologies by Tulsi Patel; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2007.
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The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Qian, Nancy; Nunn, Nathan - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas is being exploited, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Their results show that the...
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India’s Population: Past, Present and Future
Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009
year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major health problems, the average life expectancy will continue to rise during …
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A test of Governance: Education, Health and Family Planning in Areas Annexxed toKarnataka, Maharashtra and AP from Hyderabad State
Bhat, P. N. Mari - eSocialSciences - 2006
At the time of reorganization of states on the basis of the linguistic formula, the territory that belonged to erstwhile state of Hyderabad was broken down to three parts and annexed to Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. About one-third of the territory went to Maharashtra, one-sixth to...
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Population Ageing and Health in India
Rajan, S. Irudaya - eSocialSciences - 2006
The number of elderly in the developing countries has been growing at a phenomenal rate; in 1990 the population of 60 years and above in the developing countries exceeded that of the developed countries. According to present indications, most of this growth will take place in developing countries...
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Maternal Mortality in India, 1997-2003 : Trends, Causes and Risk Factors (Sample Registration System)
Registrar General, India - eSocialSciences - 2006
This Report provides estimates of maternal mortality for the period 1997-2003. The study shows that overall MMR which was in the vicinity of 400 in 1997-98, has come down to about 300 in 2001-03, thus registering a decline of 24 per cent during this period based on SRS data. The decline is...
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