Gender based within-household inequality in childhood immunization in India: changes over time and across regions.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Despite India's substantial economic growth in the past two decades, girls in India are discriminated against in access to preventive healthcare including immunizations. Surprisingly, no study has assessed the contribution of gender based within-household discrimination to the overall inequality in immunization status of Indian children. This study therefore has two objectives: to estimate the gender based within-household inequality (GWHI) in immunization status of Indian children and to examine the inter-regional and inter-temporal variations in the GWHI.

Data and methods

The present study used households with a pair of male-female siblings (aged 1-5 years) from two rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS, 1992-93 and 2005-06). The overall i

SUBMITTER: Singh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3324412 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature