Objective To assess the socioeconomic and behavioural risk factors associated with
hypertension among a sample male and female population in India. Setting Cross-sectional …

Introduction In high-income countries, the self-rated health (SRH) item is used in health
surveys to capture the population's general health because of its simplicity and satisfactory …

While studies have investigated inequalities in child nutrition along single axes of social
power such as, gender, caste and class, there has not been any study that has examined the …

Drawing on the literature on poverty measurement, we suggest the application of the mean
of squared deprivation gaps (MSDG), which captures the dimensions of level, depth and …

How have wealth inequalities in child nutrition changed in the major states of India between
the last two rounds of the National Family Health Survey? The temporal change in the …

The lack of significance of sex in the determination of child nutrition in India, as revealed
from the analysis of data from the entire population, is misleading and perplexing. Given that …

Both self-reported morbidity (SRM) and self-rated health (SRH) have been questioned on
the grounds of reliability and validity, particularly in the context of developing countries such …

The last five decades have witnessed sociologists formulating various scales to measure
and assess the degree of alienation of workers. Critical Marxists, however, argue that de …

We decompose inequality in nutritional status of Indian children along the axes ofcaste and
economic class. Inequality is measured by the most commonly decomposed measures of …

The second goal of Sustainable Development Agenda set in 2015 by the United Nations
General Assembly seeks to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and double agricultural …