Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that among the stock of women who could potentially be alive today, over 25 million are “missing”. Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of young girls are widely regarded as key explanations. We provide a decomposition of missing women by age across the states. While we do not dispute the exis...

Background Anemia is a major public health problem in India, affects all age groups but children and women in childbearing age group are the most vulnerable. However, data from hospital patients of Indian islands are not available. We aimed to study the prevalence of anemia among children aged 2-12 years of age attending a tertiary care hospital (India). Materials and Methods A total of 444 chi...

Kasi Murugan *, Savitha T , S. Vasanthi P.G & Research Department of Microbiology, K.S.R. College of Arts and Science, Tiruchengode, Tamilnadu, India Tirupur Kumaran College for Women, Tirupur, Tamilnadu, India Perundurai Medical College & Hospital, Perundurai, Tamilnadu, India Department of Botany& Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Asian Pac J Trop Di...

R. Radha, C. Senthil Kumar, M. Lakshmanan, C. R. Gilson 1 Centre for Nonlinear Science, Dept. of Physics, Govt. College for Women, Kumbakonam 612 001, India 2 Dept. of Physics, VMKV Engineering College, Periaseeragapadi, Salem 636 308, India 3 Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Dept. of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli-620 024, India 4 Dept. of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, G...

Declaration of interest None. Fundingdetailed in Acknowledgements. Mental health sequelae to spousal violence are significant and have long-term health implications. Battered women were found to have more depressive symptoms than other women (Campbell & Lewandowski, 1997). Studies have shown that the more severe the abuse, the greater its impact on a woman’s physical and mental health (Laserman...

T his chapter is about creating opportunities for men and women to build more just relationships and about transforming oppressive governance arrangements. The insights in it are derived from the experiences of Seva Mandir, a grassroots nongovernmental organization (NGO) in India that has been working closely with women and indigenous people for the past 40 years. The emphasis in our work has b...

M.G.Karunambigai and R. Parvathi and R. Buvaneswari Department of Mathematics, Sri Vasavi College, Erode 638 316, Tamilnadu, India. e-mail: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Vellalar College for Women, Erode 638 012, Tamilnadu, India. e-mail: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Coimbatore 641 035, Tamilnadu, India. e-mail: rbm...

One in ten of all new cancers diagnosed worldwide each year are carcinomas of the female breast, and it is principle cause of death from cancer among women globally. The age standardized incidence rate across the world is 43.3 per 100,000 female population. In India it was found to be 25.8 per 100,000 females (Globocan, 2012). The rise in incidence of 0.5-2% per annum has been seen across all r...

Background: Realizing the ill effects of increasing population, India was the first country to have started a state sponsored Family Planning Programme, long back in 1952; India is the second most populous country of the world only after China. To attain the required targets India needs nationwide surveys to assess the practices of contraception especially in poor performing states in order to ...