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When social identities intersect: understanding inequities in growth outcomes by religion- caste and religion-tribe as intersecting strata of social hierarchy for Muslim and Hindu...
Published 2023-06-01“…Our sample included Hindu and Muslim children of < = 5 years, who belonged to Other (forward) castes (the most privileged social group), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Schedule Castes (SCs) and Schedule Tribe (STs). …”
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Performance appraisal of nutritional rehabilitation centers in central India: A retrospective facility-based descriptive study
Published 2022-01-01“…Results: Of the 3171 children registered in the NRCs, the majority were 1–3 years of age (59.22%), female children (55.50%), and from Other Backward Class caste category (56.79%). The district records a cure rate of 56.12%, death rate of 0.03%, and defaulter rate of 4.71%, with an average length of stay being 16.5 days. …”
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Impact of Online Learning in India: A Survey of University Students During the COVID-19 Crisis
Published 2021-11-01“…However, the sudden shift to online education has presented more challenges for the socially and economically marginalized groups, including Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC), females, and students in rural areas, due to factors like the price of high-speed Internet (78% identified it as a barrier to online learning), insufficient infrastructure (23% needed to share their device frequently or very frequently), poor Internet connectivity, etc. …”
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Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia
Published 2015-10-01“…Christian population was at lower risk; and Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Other Backward Class categories were at higher risk of anemia. …”
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Socio‐economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia
Published 2015-09-01“…Christian population was at lower risk; and Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Other Backward Class categories were at higher risk of anemia. …”
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Correlates of poor self-rated health among school-going adolescent girls in urban Varanasi, India
Published 2023-10-01“…Adolescent girls from Other Backward Class (OBC) [OR: 0.39; 95% CI: .18-.85] and Others caste [OR: 0.58; 95% CI: .23–0.87] were less likely to report poor SRH than their Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) counterparts. …”
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Exploring food insecurity and multimorbidity in Indian socially disadvantaged people: cross-sectional findings from LASI, 2017–18
Published 2023-06-01“…Abstract Objectives The present study aimed to examine the association of multimorbidity status with food insecurity among disadvantaged groups such as Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Other Backward Class (OBCs) in India. Method The data for this study was derived from the first wave of the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI),2017–18, focusing on 46,953 individuals aged 45 years and over who belong to SCs, STs, and OBCs groups. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of underweight and overweight/obesity among women in India: results from the National Family Health Survey 2015–2016
Published 2019-05-01“…In adjusted multinomial logistic regression, younger age, lower education, lower wealth status, not eating daily fruits, vegetables, fried food, belonging to the scheduled tribe and tobacco use were associated with underweight, while older age, higher education, higher wealth, belonging to other backward class or other, urban residence, daily fruit consumption, daily fried food consumption, having hypertension, heart disease and high or very high blood glucose levels were associated with overweight or obesity. …”
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Evaluation of accredited social health activists in Anand District of Gujarat
Published 2018-01-01“…Majority of ASHAs(68%) belonged to other backward class (OBC). 73 (91%) ASHAs had education up to at least secondary level. 65 (81%) ASHAs were working for more than 4 years. …”
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A comparative study on psychological distress and associated factors among mothers of severely acute malnourished children belonging to urban and rural area of Central India
Published 2022-12-01“…Majority of the mothers 231 (51.3%) were from Scheduled Tribe caste followed by 123 (27.3%) other Backward Class caste. Majority of the mothers 404 (89.8%) were unemployed in our study. …”
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Desire to delay the first childbirth among young, married women in India: a cross-sectional study based on national survey data
Published 2020-03-01“…Belonging to an other backward class, or OBC, (ORadjusted 1.55, 95%CI 1.14–2.10), having completed higher education (ORadjusted 2.04, 95%CI 1.11–3.76), marrying after the age of 18 (ORadjusted 1.57, 95%CI 1.10–2.24), a husband’s higher education level (ORadjusted 2.42, 95%CI 1.27–4.64), a younger husband (ORadjusted 0.75, 95%CI 0.66–0.84) and non-exposure to physical violence (ORadjusted 1.84, 95%CI 1.09–3.11) were significantly associated with a longer preferred waiting time for the first childbirth. …”
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Socio-economic status of horse owners vis-a-vis horse feeding and management in Rajasthan
Published 2013-05-01“…Majority of respondents engaged in horse rearing were of other backward class (OBC) & general category. Literacy (%) among the horse owners was more than 80% in Hanumangarh and Jhunjhunu districts, whereas it was less than 50% in Churu and Jalore districts. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of hysterectomy in India
Published 2023-09-01“…The various determinants of hysterectomy were urban residents [AOR: 1.54 (1.21–1.96)], other backward class [AOR: 2.19 (1.72–2.78], working women [AOR: 1.19(1–1.42)] and the most affluent (rich) group [AOR: 2.06 (1.62–2.63)]. …”
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An environmental justice analysis of air pollution in India
Published 2023-10-01“…For example, we noted that a unit standard deviation increase in the cluster-prevalence of Scheduled Caste and Other Backward Class households was significantly associated with an increase in total-PM2.5 levels corresponding to 0.127 μg/m3 (95% CI 0.062 μg/m3, 0.192 μg/m3) and 0.199 μg/m3 (95% CI 0.116 μg/m3, 0.283 μg/m3, respectively. …”
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Understanding trimester-specific miscarriage risk in Indian women: insights from the calendar data of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) 2019-21
Published 2024-01-01“…However, there is a larger likelihood of miscarriage in the first trimester (≤12 weeks) for mothers who follow other religions, live in urban areas, are from Other Backward Class (OBC), get married before the age of eighteen, and fall into the middle and upper wealth quantiles. …”
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Assessment of Macro and Micronutrient Levels Associated with Gallbladder Cancer among Women of Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Western Bihar: A Case-control Study
Published 2022-12-01“…Preponderance in both cases and controls was of Hindus, rural and Other Backward Class (OBC) women. Illiterate patients were more than twice than the controls. …”
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Socioeconomic inequalities in stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates: evidence on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in eastern India
Published 2022-05-01“…We used logistic regression analysis combined with Stata’s adjrr-command to estimate absolute and relative inequalities by caste/tribe (comparing Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) and other Scheduled Tribes (ST) with the less marginalised Other Backward Class (OBC)/none, using the Indian government classification), and by maternal education and household wealth. …”
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Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia
Published 2015-09-01“…Christian population was at lower risk; and Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Other Backward Class categories were at higher risk of anemia. …”
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