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

Nancy Luke, Hongwei Xu

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)345-374
Number of pages30
JournalDemographic Research
Volume24
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Demography

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