TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the meaning of context for health
T2 - Community influences on child health in South India
AU - Luke, Nancy
AU - Xu, Hongwei
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.15
DO - 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.15
M3 - Article
C2 - 25484619
AN - SCOPUS:79955576921
SN - 1435-9871
VL - 24
SP - 345
EP - 374
JO - Demographic Research
JF - Demographic Research
ER -