Gender Differential in Disease Burden: Its Role to Explain Gender Differential in Mortality

R. Mutharayappa (b. 1954), obtained his MA and Ph.D degree in Anthropology from University of Mysore. He was USAID’s visiting fellow at the East-West Centre, Honolulu, (USA) during April-June 1996. His several papers on Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, marriage, fertility, family planning and health, etc. have been published in national and international journals of repute. He is an author of Backwardness and Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribes in India.