TY  - JOUR
A1  - Luke, Nancy
A1  - Xu, Hongwei
T1  - Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India
Y1  - 2011/02/22
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 345
EP  - 374
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.15
VL  - 24
IS  - 15
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/15/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/15/24-15.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/15/24-15.pdf
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.

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