T V Sekher
Biographic Data
| ID | 350236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T V Sekher |
| GIVEN NAMES | T V |
| FAMILY NAME | Sekher |
| SIGNATURE | SEKHER T V |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Population Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9725-002X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the availability and accessibility of medication abortion pills without a prescription
In India, mifepristone was introduced in 2002 for use with misoprostol as medication abortion and is currently approved for use up to nine weeks of gestation. Even though a prescription from a clinician is officially needed to obtain this regimen, many abortion seekers try to obtain medication abortion pills directly from pharmacies without one. The availability of medication abortion in pharmacies varies widely across states. We conducted a myst…
Assessing the Unmet Need for Healthcare among Older Adults in India
Using unit-level data from the Longitudinal Aging Study of India, we define unmet healthcare need among older adults using various parameters. Seven indicators were computed to measure unmet needs based on healthcare visits and referrals, treatment of sensory organs, lack of treatment of diagnosed diseases and undiagnosed and undertreated hypertension /diabetes
Landslide Vulnerability as a Justice Issue
The severity and frequency of climate change-induced disasters are escalating in the Indian state of Kerala. Landslides have become a pressing issue, the most destructive occurrence recently. The Mundakkai-Churalmala region in Wayanad district had the most devastating landslide in the recorded history of Kerala. Landslide becomes an issue of justice when it disproportionately affects a particular section of the society. Regrettably, the state's s…
The association between BMI and cognition in India
Underweight BMI is a risk factor for poor cognitive outcomes in adults 45 years and older and may be indicative of poor nutritional status and life-course disadvantage in India. In tandem with existing literature, supplemental analyses and effect modification results indicate that unmeasured confounding and reverse causation may explain the observed positive associations between overweight and obese BMI and cognitive functioning from cross-sectio…
Patrilocality and Child Sex Ratios in India
Parliamentary Delimitation
Delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in India has been delayed for more than 50 years since 1971, leading to significant disparities in political representation across the states. Our analysis reveals that states experiencing rapid fertility decline over the last half century have become politically overrepresented, while the states with slower fertility decline remain under-represented. This distortion has harmed the principle of equ…
Gender disparities in self-perceived health and subjective well-being among older adults in India
Call Centers and Associated Health Hazard for Women Employees
Indian women are fast moving from conventional jobs to night-shift jobs in transnational call centers. Women working at night is a relatively new phenomenon and stands apart from the usual Indian lifestyle. Night work and the dual burden of work and family have adverse implications on women employees’ physical and psychological health. The paper highlights the occupational health hazards of women employees of international call centers through a …
Identification of Disability for Inclusive Development
The identification and representation of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) has been a contentious issue due to the lack of methodological standardization. This study scrutinizes the methodological innovation made by the Indian state of Kerala for identifying PwDs in its special census on disability in 2015. The study used disability data from the 15 th Census of India and the Disability Census (DC) of Kerala and used descriptive statistics to comp…
Effects of parental stature on child stunting in India
Adult heights in India are short. Child stunting remains high though the prevalence fell from 48% to 38% in the decade prior to 2016. This study assesses the links between parental height and child stunting using nationally representative data on 28,975 under-five-year-old children from the 2015–16 National Family Health Survey. Parental heights are represented as quintiles. Logistic regression was applied to estimate the effect of parental heigh…
Mid upper arm circumference as an alternative measure to assess the nutritional status of adolescents
Use of body mass index (BMI) to assess the nutritional status of adolescents requires many resources, especially for country-level assessment. This study aimed to determine the relationship between BMI and mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) among adolescent males and females in India and to examine whether MUAC effectively represents the nutritional status of adolescents. The study utilized anthropometric measurement data collected by India’s Nat…
Association of self-perceived income status with psychological distress and subjective well-being
By focusing on four target areas such as the income support, education, family oriented initiatives and local or regional policies, the current framework for assessing the mental health among older adults in India can be modified. A move towards a guaranteed pension for eligible older individuals by which they do not have to remain as a financial burden on their children, may reduce their self-perceived economic distress and result in higher leve…
Orphans and their living arrangement in Indian households
Disentangling the effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth in India
We analysed population data from the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey to disentangle the intricate underlying effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth. We expected birth interval length to be more strongly associated with stunting than sibsize and these effects to be moderated by whether the child was wanted or unintended (mistimed/unwanted). Regression analyses showed strong and equal effects of short bir…
Prevalence, determinants and socio-economic inequality of early marriage among men in India
Decomposing the Socioeconomic Inequality in Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in Selected Countries of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
The gap in access to maternal health care services is a challenge of an unequal world. In 2015, each day about 830 women died due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low-resource settings, and most could have been prevented. This study quantified the contributions of the socioeconomic determinants of inequality to the utilization of maternal health care services in four countries in diverse geograp…
Unwanted’ is My Name
This study tries to explore the shocking ‘Nakusa’ phenomenon in the Satara district of Maharashtra by analysing the factors responsible for discrimination against girl children. Many parents have named their daughters as ‘Nakusa/Nakoshi’ means ‘unwanted’ in local Marathi language, in the hope and under the superstition that the next child will be a boy. A survey of ‘Nakusa’ households was carried out in 2013 in the selected villages besides case …
Single-Child Families in India
This paper discusses a relatively new but an emerging demographic phenomenon of single-child families in India. This paper examines the levels, trends and determinants of single-child families using the data from three rounds of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) conducted in 1992–1993, 1998–1999 and 2005–2006. The paper analyses women who have completed their reproductive life to understand the characteristics of single-child families. The re…
Consanguineous marriages and their effects on pregnancy outcomes in India
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between the marriage among blood relatives and resulting adverse pregnancy outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data from India Human Development Survey in 2005. The methods of analyses include bivariate, trivariate estimates and Cox proportional hazard regression model. Findings The results reveal that the occurrence of consanguineous marriages is more predomina…
Exploring the Myth of Mixed Marriages in India
Marriages in India are essentially endogamous in nature. The influences of western education and socio-economic transformations have led to enormous change in the existing pattern of choosing one's life partner and marriage practices in India. For the first time, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical assessment of the extent of mixed marriages by analyzing nationally representative data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS, 2005…
Data Resource Profile
Population ageing is rapidly becoming a global issue and will have a major impact on health policies and programmes. The World Health Organization's Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) aims to address the gap in reliable data and scientific knowledge on ageing and health in low- and middle-income countries. SAGE is a longitudinal study with nationally representative samples of persons aged 50+ years in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russ…
Role of Induced Abortion in Attaining Reproductive Goals in Kyrgyzstan
Estimates indicate that about 42 million pregnancies are voluntarily terminated every year at the global level, of which more than 80% occur in developing countries. Abortion has been one of the major reproductive health concerns in post-Soviet nations, especially when it is commonly used as a means of fertility regulation. On average, every woman has had around 1.6 abortions in Kyrgyzstan. This paper attempts to measure the role of abortion in f…
Antenatal Care among Tribals
The study examines the influence of socio-economic and demographic variables (age, social class, religion, marital duration, surviving children etc.) on the utilization of Antenatal care (ANC) services from public or other health professionals among tribals and non-tribals. It also examines the effect of availability and accessibility of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services on utilization of ANC services. The data from District Level Hous…
Disappearing Daughters and Intensification of Gender Bias
Why are female children still at risk in India despite progress in education, increasing participation of women in economic and political activities, and an overall improvement in the status of women? Is there any significant shift from 'son preference' to 'daughter discrimination'? Based on a study of two villages from low-fertility regions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, this paper attempts to understand the factors responsible for the increasing …
Can Career-Minded Young Women Reverse Gender Discrimination? A View from Bangalore’s High-Tech Sector
Women’s status in India is mixed, with many positive and negative indicators. The devaluation of daughters leads parents to resort to sex-selective abortions and infanticide— practices currently spreading to previously unaffected areas. In relation to this negative picture, interviews with women employed in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Bangalore suggest its opposite: a partial reversal of daughter devaluation is currently emerging in…
Exploring the Myth of Mixed Marriages in India
Marriages in India are essentially endogamous in nature. The influences of western education and socio-economic transformations have led to enormous change in the existing pattern of choosing one's life partner and marriage practices in India. For the first time, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical assessment of the extent of mixed marriages by analyzing nationally representative data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS, 2005…
Disappearing Daughters and Intensification of Gender Bias
Why are female children still at risk in India despite progress in education, increasing participation of women in economic and political activities, and an overall improvement in the status of women? Is there any significant shift from 'son preference' to 'daughter discrimination'? Based on a study of two villages from low-fertility regions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, this paper attempts to understand the factors responsible for the increasing …
Can Career-Minded Young Women Reverse Gender Discrimination? A View from Bangalore’s High-Tech Sector
Women’s status in India is mixed, with many positive and negative indicators. The devaluation of daughters leads parents to resort to sex-selective abortions and infanticide— practices currently spreading to previously unaffected areas. In relation to this negative picture, interviews with women employed in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Bangalore suggest its opposite: a partial reversal of daughter devaluation is currently emerging in…
Unwanted’ is My Name
This study tries to explore the shocking ‘Nakusa’ phenomenon in the Satara district of Maharashtra by analysing the factors responsible for discrimination against girl children. Many parents have named their daughters as ‘Nakusa/Nakoshi’ means ‘unwanted’ in local Marathi language, in the hope and under the superstition that the next child will be a boy. A survey of ‘Nakusa’ households was carried out in 2013 in the selected villages besides case …
Single-Child Families in India
This paper discusses a relatively new but an emerging demographic phenomenon of single-child families in India. This paper examines the levels, trends and determinants of single-child families using the data from three rounds of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) conducted in 1992–1993, 1998–1999 and 2005–2006. The paper analyses women who have completed their reproductive life to understand the characteristics of single-child families. The re…
Prevalence, determinants and socio-economic inequality of early marriage among men in India
Patrilocality and Child Sex Ratios in India
Disentangling the effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth in India
We analysed population data from the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey to disentangle the intricate underlying effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth. We expected birth interval length to be more strongly associated with stunting than sibsize and these effects to be moderated by whether the child was wanted or unintended (mistimed/unwanted). Regression analyses showed strong and equal effects of short bir…
Consanguineous marriages and their effects on pregnancy outcomes in India
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between the marriage among blood relatives and resulting adverse pregnancy outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data from India Human Development Survey in 2005. The methods of analyses include bivariate, trivariate estimates and Cox proportional hazard regression model. Findings The results reveal that the occurrence of consanguineous marriages is more predomina…
Can Career-Minded Young Women Reverse Gender Discrimination? A View from Bangalore’s High-Tech Sector
Women’s status in India is mixed, with many positive and negative indicators. The devaluation of daughters leads parents to resort to sex-selective abortions and infanticide— practices currently spreading to previously unaffected areas. In relation to this negative picture, interviews with women employed in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Bangalore suggest its opposite: a partial reversal of daughter devaluation is currently emerging in…
Role of Induced Abortion in Attaining Reproductive Goals in Kyrgyzstan
Estimates indicate that about 42 million pregnancies are voluntarily terminated every year at the global level, of which more than 80% occur in developing countries. Abortion has been one of the major reproductive health concerns in post-Soviet nations, especially when it is commonly used as a means of fertility regulation. On average, every woman has had around 1.6 abortions in Kyrgyzstan. This paper attempts to measure the role of abortion in f…
Antenatal Care among Tribals
The study examines the influence of socio-economic and demographic variables (age, social class, religion, marital duration, surviving children etc.) on the utilization of Antenatal care (ANC) services from public or other health professionals among tribals and non-tribals. It also examines the effect of availability and accessibility of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services on utilization of ANC services. The data from District Level Hous…
Disappearing Daughters and Intensification of Gender Bias
Why are female children still at risk in India despite progress in education, increasing participation of women in economic and political activities, and an overall improvement in the status of women? Is there any significant shift from 'son preference' to 'daughter discrimination'? Based on a study of two villages from low-fertility regions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, this paper attempts to understand the factors responsible for the increasing …
Data Resource Profile
Population ageing is rapidly becoming a global issue and will have a major impact on health policies and programmes. The World Health Organization's Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) aims to address the gap in reliable data and scientific knowledge on ageing and health in low- and middle-income countries. SAGE is a longitudinal study with nationally representative samples of persons aged 50+ years in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russ…
Consanguineous marriages and their effects on pregnancy outcomes in India
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between the marriage among blood relatives and resulting adverse pregnancy outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data from India Human Development Survey in 2005. The methods of analyses include bivariate, trivariate estimates and Cox proportional hazard regression model. Findings The results reveal that the occurrence of consanguineous marriages is more predomina…
Exploring the Myth of Mixed Marriages in India
Marriages in India are essentially endogamous in nature. The influences of western education and socio-economic transformations have led to enormous change in the existing pattern of choosing one's life partner and marriage practices in India. For the first time, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical assessment of the extent of mixed marriages by analyzing nationally representative data from the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS, 2005…
Single-Child Families in India
This paper discusses a relatively new but an emerging demographic phenomenon of single-child families in India. This paper examines the levels, trends and determinants of single-child families using the data from three rounds of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) conducted in 1992–1993, 1998–1999 and 2005–2006. The paper analyses women who have completed their reproductive life to understand the characteristics of single-child families. The re…
Unwanted’ is My Name
This study tries to explore the shocking ‘Nakusa’ phenomenon in the Satara district of Maharashtra by analysing the factors responsible for discrimination against girl children. Many parents have named their daughters as ‘Nakusa/Nakoshi’ means ‘unwanted’ in local Marathi language, in the hope and under the superstition that the next child will be a boy. A survey of ‘Nakusa’ households was carried out in 2013 in the selected villages besides case …
Decomposing the Socioeconomic Inequality in Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in Selected Countries of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
The gap in access to maternal health care services is a challenge of an unequal world. In 2015, each day about 830 women died due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low-resource settings, and most could have been prevented. This study quantified the contributions of the socioeconomic determinants of inequality to the utilization of maternal health care services in four countries in diverse geograp…
Prevalence, determinants and socio-economic inequality of early marriage among men in India
Association of self-perceived income status with psychological distress and subjective well-being
By focusing on four target areas such as the income support, education, family oriented initiatives and local or regional policies, the current framework for assessing the mental health among older adults in India can be modified. A move towards a guaranteed pension for eligible older individuals by which they do not have to remain as a financial burden on their children, may reduce their self-perceived economic distress and result in higher leve…
Orphans and their living arrangement in Indian households
Disentangling the effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth in India
We analysed population data from the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey to disentangle the intricate underlying effects of reproductive behaviours and fertility preferences on child growth. We expected birth interval length to be more strongly associated with stunting than sibsize and these effects to be moderated by whether the child was wanted or unintended (mistimed/unwanted). Regression analyses showed strong and equal effects of short bir…
Effects of parental stature on child stunting in India
Adult heights in India are short. Child stunting remains high though the prevalence fell from 48% to 38% in the decade prior to 2016. This study assesses the links between parental height and child stunting using nationally representative data on 28,975 under-five-year-old children from the 2015–16 National Family Health Survey. Parental heights are represented as quintiles. Logistic regression was applied to estimate the effect of parental heigh…
Mid upper arm circumference as an alternative measure to assess the nutritional status of adolescents
Use of body mass index (BMI) to assess the nutritional status of adolescents requires many resources, especially for country-level assessment. This study aimed to determine the relationship between BMI and mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) among adolescent males and females in India and to examine whether MUAC effectively represents the nutritional status of adolescents. The study utilized anthropometric measurement data collected by India’s Nat…
Gender disparities in self-perceived health and subjective well-being among older adults in India
Call Centers and Associated Health Hazard for Women Employees
Indian women are fast moving from conventional jobs to night-shift jobs in transnational call centers. Women working at night is a relatively new phenomenon and stands apart from the usual Indian lifestyle. Night work and the dual burden of work and family have adverse implications on women employees’ physical and psychological health. The paper highlights the occupational health hazards of women employees of international call centers through a …
Identification of Disability for Inclusive Development
The identification and representation of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) has been a contentious issue due to the lack of methodological standardization. This study scrutinizes the methodological innovation made by the Indian state of Kerala for identifying PwDs in its special census on disability in 2015. The study used disability data from the 15 th Census of India and the Disability Census (DC) of Kerala and used descriptive statistics to comp…
The association between BMI and cognition in India
Underweight BMI is a risk factor for poor cognitive outcomes in adults 45 years and older and may be indicative of poor nutritional status and life-course disadvantage in India. In tandem with existing literature, supplemental analyses and effect modification results indicate that unmeasured confounding and reverse causation may explain the observed positive associations between overweight and obese BMI and cognitive functioning from cross-sectio…
Patrilocality and Child Sex Ratios in India
Parliamentary Delimitation
Delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in India has been delayed for more than 50 years since 1971, leading to significant disparities in political representation across the states. Our analysis reveals that states experiencing rapid fertility decline over the last half century have become politically overrepresented, while the states with slower fertility decline remain under-represented. This distortion has harmed the principle of equ…
Landslide Vulnerability as a Justice Issue
The severity and frequency of climate change-induced disasters are escalating in the Indian state of Kerala. Landslides have become a pressing issue, the most destructive occurrence recently. The Mundakkai-Churalmala region in Wayanad district had the most devastating landslide in the recorded history of Kerala. Landslide becomes an issue of justice when it disproportionately affects a particular section of the society. Regrettably, the state's s…
Exploring the availability and accessibility of medication abortion pills without a prescription
In India, mifepristone was introduced in 2002 for use with misoprostol as medication abortion and is currently approved for use up to nine weeks of gestation. Even though a prescription from a clinician is officially needed to obtain this regimen, many abortion seekers try to obtain medication abortion pills directly from pharmacies without one. The availability of medication abortion in pharmacies varies widely across states. We conducted a myst…
Assessing the Unmet Need for Healthcare among Older Adults in India
Using unit-level data from the Longitudinal Aging Study of India, we define unmet healthcare need among older adults using various parameters. Seven indicators were computed to measure unmet needs based on healthcare visits and referrals, treatment of sensory organs, lack of treatment of diagnosed diseases and undiagnosed and undertreated hypertension /diabetes
Medicine (15 works) · Demography (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (8 works)