The present book "Population, Poverty and Health: Analytical Approaches" is a compilation of some selected papers presented in the XXIX Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) and National Seminar on Recent Statistical Technique for Data Analysis, organized at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during 26-28 October 2007. There are 29 articles included in the book covering wide areas of population, poverty and health. The papers are arranged into 4 sections, namely, population dynamics, poverty and health, sexual health and HIV/AIDS and miscellaneous. This book will promote exchange of ideas and throw lights on various dimensions of population dynamics and develop new methodologies for handling the complex nexus of population, poverty and health.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arvind Pandey
Dr. Arvind pandey is Reader, Department of Mathematical Demography and Statistics, International Institute for Population Sciences, Bombay. He has been teaching Mathematical Demography, Techniques of Fertility Analysis, Population Projection, Evaluation of Family Planning Programmes and Biostatistics over a decade. His area of interest covers modelling biosocial processes in general and human reproduction process in particular. He has written more than 50 papers which are published innational and International journals. Dr. Pandey is recipient of several awards, e.g., Young Scientist Award of the Indian Science Congress Association, Malaviya Memorial Foundation Award of Banaras Hindu University for his outstanding research in the area of Birth Interval Analysis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K K Singh
K.K. Singh did his B.Sc (Ag.) Hons, M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science in first division from Agra University, Agra and M.Phil and Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from AMU, Aligarh. He availed UGC-JRF during his M.Phil, and Ph.D. studies. He qualified GATE-91 examination with an overall percentile score of 91.55. He qualified at a National Eligibility Test in Soil Sci.-Soil Chem. Fert. And Microb. In 1995 and NET-1997 in Soil Sci.-Soil Physics/Soil and Water Conservation organized by Agricultural Scientist Recruitment Board, New Delhi. He joined the Department of Agriculture, Got. Of Rajasthan in 1993 as Asst. Agril. Research Officer (Chem.) in a Gazetted position and presently working at Project Directorate (Research), Agriculture and Soil Survey, Krishi Bhavan, Bikaner. He has also served as Asst. Professor (Soil and Water Conservation) for a short stint at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (RARS, Leh), Srinagar. He has 30 research papers, 45 articles, 20 chapters and 6 books published to his credit. He is also a recipient of ARIC 'Crop Research Award-1997' for his significant contribution for promoting literature in the field of agriculture, 20th Century 'Young Agricultural Scientist National Award', and 'Best Paper Award'. He has attended a number of national/international seminars/conferences/workshops and presented papers. He was a member of Editorial Board of J. Crop Research from 2001 to 2003. He is a Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association. He is also an expert of agricultural programmes broadcast from AIR, Bikaner.
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