Mind the gap: temporal trends in inequalities in infant and child mortality in India (1992–2016)
Bhatia, Mrigesh
; Ranjan, M.; Dixit, P.; and Dwivedi, L.K.
(2018)
Mind the gap: temporal trends in inequalities in infant and child mortality in India (1992–2016)
SSM - Population Health, 5.
201 - 209.
ISSN 2352-8273
- Temporal trends in inequalities in infant and child mortality over two and half decades in India. - Relative change in inequalities in child mortality over survey periods. - Scatter plots to identify states with largest inequalities among wealth index groups. - Concentration Index by various background characteristics. - Decomposition analysis identifying the factors contributing in inequality in infant mortality between richest and poorest groups. - Gap between the poorest and richest groups has narrowed in most states in India in recent years.
| Item Type | Article |
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| Copyright holders | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. |
| Departments | Health Policy |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.05.001 |
| Date Deposited | 14 May 2018 11:23 |
| Acceptance Date | 2018-05-04 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87913 |
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