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Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India

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  • Nancy Luke

    (Pennsylvania State University)

  • Hongwei Xu

    (City University of New York)

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Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Using data from a group of tea estates in South India, we attempt to address important methodological challenges in the identification of neighborhood effects on child health. We find significant neighborhood effects for weight for age at age one, including a protective role for community-level women’s education, but none for birth weight. In contrast to the usual pattern in rural India, caste disparities in child health are also eliminated in this setting.

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  • Nancy Luke & Hongwei Xu, 2011. "Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 24(15), pages 345-374.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:24:y:2011:i:15
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.15
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    Keywords

    India; caste; low birthweight; child health; child nutrition; neighborhood effects;
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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