Diane Coffey is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Demography at the University of Texas at Austin and co-executive director at r.i.c.e., a research institute for compassionate economics.
'Low birthweight and prematurity' is now the most common cause of child death in India. Apart from improving publicly provided newborn care, we need to communicate to families how…
The Swachh Bharat Mission has turned out to be a top-down programme in which villagers are often coerced into building latrines, with relatively little focus on latrine use. A field survey challenges…
