Resolving a Paradox: Why do Indian Muslims have significantly lower infant mortality rates despite Muslim parents being poorer and less educated on average? The answer: Better sanitation

by Guest Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:49 am

http://www.isid.ac.in/~pu/seminar/dean.pdf

by Rishi Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:34 am

Rashmun wrote:http://www.isid.ac.in/~pu/seminar/dean.pdf

>>>>Rashmun,

What about this?

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-215001-Over-43-million-people-in-Pakistan-defecate-in-the-open

by Rishi Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:35 am

“Access to toilets remains the unmentionable, often shameful secret in Pakistan,” said Miriam de Figueroa, Unicef’s deputy representative in Pakistan. “But it’s invisibility doesn’t make it less harmless; in fact, it is quite the reverse especially as poor sanitation conditions contribute to malnutrition and the high level of stunting in Pakistan and provide a fertile ground for spreading the polio virus. Lack of access to safe sanitation is quite literally killing Pakistani children — day after day after day.” “Every action which spurs people to change their way of dealing with defecation brings us closer towards the goal of sanitation for all. It is not easy, but it is certainly doable, and moreover, it is absolutely indispensable,” Figueroa said. Every 24 hours, 320 children in Pakistan die from diarrhoea - the result of a deadly combination of unsafe water and poor sanitation conditions. Water and sanitation related diseases are responsible for some 60 per cent of the total number of deaths of children under five years of age.

by Guest Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:38 am

Rishi wrote:
Rashmun wrote:http://www.isid.ac.in/~pu/seminar/dean.pdf

>>>>Rashmun,

What about this?

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-215001-Over-43-million-people-in-Pakistan-defecate-in-the-open

Pakistan is a different country. Statistically it makes more sense to compare Indian Muslims with Indian Hindus on a parameter like infant mortality rate. If there is a significant difference between the infant mortality rates of Indian Muslims and Hindus then we need to offer some reasonable interpretation for the data.

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Resolving a Paradox: Why do Indian Muslims have significantly lower infant mortality rates despite Muslim parents being poorer and less educated on average? The answer: Better sanitation

Resolving a Paradox: Why do Indian Muslims have significantly lower infant mortality rates despite Muslim parents being poorer and less educated on average? The answer: Better sanitation

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Re: Resolving a Paradox: Why do Indian Muslims have significantly lower infant mortality rates despite Muslim parents being poorer and less educated on average? The answer: Better sanitation

Re: Resolving a Paradox: Why do Indian Muslims have significantly lower infant mortality rates despite Muslim parents being poorer and less educated on average? The answer: Better sanitation

Re: Resolving a Paradox: Why do Indian Muslims have significantly lower infant mortality rates despite Muslim parents being poorer and less educated on average? The answer: Better sanitation