Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011

Summary Background India's 2011 census revealed a growing imbalance between the numbers of girls and boys aged 0–6 years, which we postulate is due to increased prenatal sex determination with subsequent selective abortion of female fetuses. We aimed to establish the trends in sex ratio by birt...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet (British edition) 2011-06, Vol.377 (9781), p.1921-1928
Hauptverfasser:	Jha, Prabhat, Prof, Kesler, Maya A, MSc, Kumar, Rajesh, Prof, Ram, Faujdar, Prof, Ram, Usha, PhD, Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz, MSc, Bassani, Diego G, PhD, Chandra, Shailaja, IAS, Banthia, Jayant K, PhD
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abortion Abortion, Eugenic - trends Adolescent Adult Biological and medical sciences Birth Order Births boys Census census data Censuses Child Child Mortality Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Diseases of mother, fetus and pregnancy Education Female fetus General aspects girls Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics Households Humans India - epidemiology Infant Infant, Newborn Internal Medicine Interviews linear models Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mortality mothers National Institutes of Health Pregnancy Pregnancy. Fetus. Placenta Principal components analysis Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine research and development Rural areas sex determination Sex Preselection Sex Ratio Sexes Studies surveys Trends Women Young Adult
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