Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Rural India

This book which is based on the NFHS-I data focuses on the differentials and determinants of Infant and Child Mortality among three different under-5 mortality groups of states in rural India. The book first deals with the differentials in the housing characteristics, fertility behaviour of women, utilization of maternal area services, immunization and breast feeding practices and nutritional status of children among the three morality group of states. In the next stage, the levels, trends and differentials in infant and child mortality among the three mortality group of states are presented in detail. In the final stage multivariate analysis has been carried out to assess the effect of various socio-economic and maternal cream variables on infant and child mortality in rural India. This book will be very useful to the researchers, policy makers, with the programmes and research aimed to reduce Infant and Child Mortality in Rural India. About The Dr. S. Gunasekaran, is basically a statistician (M.S.c. Statistics) and had his training in demography (MS.c. Demography) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, U.K. He has completed his Ph. D. in Population studies in the Department of Population Studies at Sri Venkateswara University, Tripuati. He has earlier worked in the Population Research Centre (PRC) of the Government of India attached to the Gandhigram Institute of Rural heath and Family Welfare Trust and now he is working as Reader in the Department of Applied Research at Gandhigram Rural University, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been involved in a number of research projects sponsored by various national and international agencies such as government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants Commission, Indian Council of Medical Research, UNICEF, UNESCO, etc. So far he has successfully completed m