Women'S Autonomy And Reproductive Behaviour

Year:2010,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:380,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- Dr. S. Gunasekaran is basically a statistician (M.Sc. Statistics) and had his training in demography (M.Sc. Demography) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, U.K. He had completed his Ph.D. in Population Studies in the Department of Population Studies at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati.He has earlier worked in the Population Research Centre (PRC) of the Government of India attached to the Gandhigram Institute of Rural Health and Family Welfare Trust and now he is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Research of the Gandhigram Rural University, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India. Besides teaching Statistics, Demography and Research Methods to the students of both graduate and post-graduate courses, he has also been guiding a number of students for their M.Phil. and Ph.D. He has also been involved in a number of research projects in the field of population, gender, human rights and reproductive health funded by various national and international agencies such as Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants Commission, Indian Council of Medical Research, UNICEF, UNESCO, etc. So far he has successfully completed more than 25 research projects. He is a member of a number of professional forums like International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), Population and Environment Research Network (PERN) and Asia Population Network (APN). He has published a number of articles on Population, Gender, Human Rights and Reproductive Health., Contents:- List of Tables