Sex-ratio at birth in families with previous girls is worse than those with a boy. Our aim was to prospectively study in a large maternal and child unit sex-ratio against previous birth sex and use of traditional medicines for sex selection. Sex-ratio among mothers in families with a previo...
Prabhat Jha and colleagues report a low female-to-male sex ratio in India (759/1000) on the basis of a large national survey. They rule out other causes of this imbalance and conclude that it is likely to be due to prenatal sex determination by ultrasound followed by selective abortion of...
The sex ratio of Indias population has been on the declining course during the last one century currently indicating a massive deficit of females. Sex ratio trends vary considerably across the regions of India consistent with the degree of gender inequalities in education employment and empowerment in...
来源学校 University of East Anglia 1997 研究点推荐 Sex ratio imbalances 引用走势 2002 被引量:4 0关于我们 百度学术集成海量学术资源,融合人工智能、深度学习、大数据分析等技术,为科研工作者提供全面快捷的学术服务。在这里我们保持学习的态度,不忘初心,砥砺前行。了解更多>> 友情链接 联系我们 合作与服务...
Sex ratio at birth (SRB) among live singleton newborns and among previous children, if any, of their mothers without history of any abortion, stillbirth or twins is reported here. In the absence of environmental stress or selective abortion of females, global average of SRB is about 1050 ...
The purpose of this study is explore several socio-economic factors associated with sex ratio at birth and the influencing factors in the family dynamics of major states of India. We use quantitative secondary data collected from statistical databases like India Human Development Survey, 2010 and Cen...
Further, the association is heterogeneous by women’s empowerment, crime against women, and party rule in the state, and the association between the child sex ratio and trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude in states with greater women’s empowerment. Overall, ...
Adult sex ratio was 1.5 to 5.0 adult female for each adult male. Four groups inhabiting forests with varying degree of disturbance were monitored using focal animal sampling for 1,728 hours during 12 months. Records on activity budgets, food and feeding behavior, and reproductive an 展开 ...
Before 1990, sex ratios at birth were consistently nearly one point lower (104) for the three major Asian groups in Britain compared with mothers born in Western countries. This is inconsistent with previous suggestions that Asian populations have a higher "natural" sex ratio at birth. In the ...
By contrast, adjusted sex ratios for second or third births if the previous children were boys were about equal (1102 and 1176, respectively). Mothers with grade 10 or higher education had a significantly lower adjusted sex ratio (683, 610–756) than did illiterate mothers (869, 820–917)....