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01-03-2017 | Correspondence

Discrimination in Seeking Medical Care for Female Child from Birth to Adolescence – A Retrospective Study: Correspondence

Author: Manas Pratim Roy

Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 3/2017

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To the Editor: The article on discrimination to girl child is timely and thought provoking [1]. The authors tried to correlate hospital attendance to neglected female children. However, being a tertiary care centre, the study hospital mostly caters to referred and critical cases and may not be a good reflector of the health seeking behavior of the community. Infact, Immunization Clinic may act as a proxy for general population (similar to antenatal clinic in annual HIV sentinel surveillance) but other ratios are not good indicator for gender discrimination, especially if we consider higher vulnerability of male children to diseases and mortality. …

Title: Discrimination in Seeking Medical Care for Female Child from Birth to Adolescence – A Retrospective Study: Correspondence
Author: Manas Pratim Roy
Publication date: 01-03-2017
Publisher: Springer India
Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0019-5456
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7693
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-016-2241-9

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