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ArticleSSM - population health2018

Mind the gap: Temporal trends in inequalities in infant and child mortality in India (1992-2016).

M Bhatia, M Ranjan, P Dixit, L K Dwivedi

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Article in SSM - population health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

M BhatiaDept. of Health Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom.
M RanjanInternational Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
P DixitSchool of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
L K DwivediInternational Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
International Institute for Population Sciences · INLondon School of Economics and Political Science · GBTata Institute of Social Sciences · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

•Temporal trends in inequalities in infant and child mortality over two and half decades in India.•Relative change in inequalities in child mortality over survey periods.•Scatter plots to identify states with largest inequalities among wealth index groups.•Concentration Index by various background characteristics and decomposition analysis to identify factors contributing in inequality in infant mortality between richest and poorest groups.•Gap between the poorest and richest groups has narrowed in most states in India in recent years.

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PMID30094315
PMCPMC6072655
OpenAlexW2800373376

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