Search for dissertations about: "rural education dissertations in India"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words rural education dissertations in India.

  2. 1. Too Hot! : an Epidemiological Investigation of Weather-Related Mortality in Rural India

    Author : Vijendra Ingole; Barbara Schumann; Joacim Rocklöv; Rainer Sauerborn; Sanjay Juvekar; Patrick Kinney; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Temperature; heat and cold; mortality; education; socioeconomic status; occupation; rural population; India; folkhälsa; Public health;

    Abstract : BackgroundMost environmental epidemiological studies are conducted in high income settings. The association between ambient temperature and mortality has been studied worldwide, especially in developed countries. READ MORE

  4. 2. Gender inequity in child survival : travails of the girl child in rural north India

    Author : Anand Krishnan; Nawi Ng; Peter Byass; Chadrakant Pandav; Per Ashorn; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Conditional cash transfers; girl child; inequities; gender; prejudice; mortality; non-specific effects; sex; socio-economic; vaccines; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

    Abstract : Background: While substantial progress has been made globally towards achieving United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child mortality, the decline is not sufficient to reach the targets set for 2015. The South Asian region, which includes India, was to achieve the MDG 4 target of 39 deaths per 1000 live births by 2015 but was estimated to have reached only 61 by 2011. READ MORE

  5. 3. "In general, how do you feel today?" Self-rated health in the context of aging in India

    Author : Siddhivinayak Hirve; Nawi Ng; Stig Wall; Yulia Blomstedt; Stephen M. Tollman; SV Subramanian; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Self-rated health; quality of life; aging; mortality; disability; reportingheterogeneity; anchoring vignettes; India; epidemiologi; Epidemiology;

    Abstract : Background: Most aging research comes from the developed world. Aging research in India is focused on disease states and risk factors. Evidence on elderly health, physical performance and disability to understand the psycho-social or socio-behavioral risk is limited in India. READ MORE

  6. 4. Maternal health and health care in Madhya Pradesh state of India : an exploration using a human rights lens

    Author : Tej Ram Jat; Miguel San Sebastian; Anna-Karin Hurtig; Isabel Goicolea; Karen Marie Moland; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Maternal health; right to health; reproductive and sexual health; Madhya Pradesh; India;

    Abstract : Pregnancy and motherhood are natural processes in the lives of women of reproductive age. These processes are generally considered to be positive and fulfilling experiences. However, for various reasons, many women end up dying as a result of these processes. READ MORE