Regional Differences of Child Under-Nutrition in Bangladesh
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Infant mortality and child nutrition in Bangladesh.
The excess female infant mortality observed in South Asia has typically been attributed to gender discrimination in the intra-household allocation of food and medical care. However, studies on child nutrition find no evidence of gender differences. A natural explanation could be that in environments of high infant mortality of females, the surviving children are healthier, so that child nutriti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1796-6191,1796-6183
DOI: 10.23979/fypr.40935