The world's almost 400 million Indigenous people have low standards of health. This poor
health is associated with poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, poor hygiene, environmental …

Approximately 370–500 million Indigenous people live worldwide. While Indigenous
peoples make up only 5% of the world's population, they account for 15% of the extreme …

In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to
socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket …

Much has been written about the measurement of socio-economic position (SEP) in high-
income countries (HIC). Less has been written for an epidemiology, health systems and …

Background Community mobilisation through participatory women's groups might improve
birth outcomes in poor rural communities. We therefore assessed this approach in a largely …

Background Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and may increase
the risk of obesity and diabetes. We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have …

Under-nutrition is a known risk factor for TB and can adversely affect treatment outcomes.
However, data from India are sparse, despite the high burden of TB as well as malnutrition in …

Objectives. We examined the role of women's education and proximate educational context
on intimate partner violence (IPV). Methods. We examined a sample of 83627 married …

Domestic violence has harmful physical and psychological health correlates, but there is
little evidence regarding a relation between domestic violence and malnutrition. To …

Context Prior research on the determinants of child health has focused on contemporaneous
risk factors such as maternal behaviors, dietary factors, and immediate environmental …