Cultural Practices and Child Health in Pakistan
In this talk, I’ll be discussing the relationship with child stunting of two practices that are common in the local context. The first is son-biased fertility stopping behaviour, where parents commonly add to their family until they reach the desired number of sons. This increases the chances that later-born children are stunted, unless the child is a first born son. Prenatal inputs also tend to increase if a family does not yet have a son. The second practice that we consider is the impact of exposure to mild in-utero nutritional disruptions due to fasting.
Date: 15 October 2019, 14:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Speaker: Professor Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)
Organising department: Asian Studies Centre
Organiser contact email address: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Booking email: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Clare Salter