Missing Girls in India: Infanticide, Feticide and Made-to-Order Pregnancies? Insights from Hospital-Based Sex-Ratio-at-Birth over the Last Century

BACKGROUND: There are 44 million missing women in India. Gender bias; neglect of girls, infanticides and feticides are responsible. The sex ratio at birth can be used to examine the influence of antenatal sex selection on the sex ratio. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Records from 321,991 deliveries at one h...

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Autores principales: Sahni, Mohit, Verma, Neeraj, Narula, D., Varghese, Raji Mathew, Sreenivas, V., Puliyel, Jacob M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002224

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002224

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