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This book presents an overview of eleven of the most important prospective studies in developing countries in population and health research. Leading practitioners in the field report on the methodologies they have developed and used, and summarize their findings. Since many of these methodologies have never been documented, and the results gathered are scattered in many different publications, Prospective Community Studies in Developing Countries provides a ...
"Despite the surge of interest in gender issues, the question of women's health in India has received very little attention. This volume is structured to take a holistic view, looking at the health of women from childhood to old age, thereby identifying those points of the life-cycle at which women are most vulnerable and the sources of such vulnerability. Investigating and documenting sex differentials in infant and child mortality rates, and their ...