Health inequity and women's self-help groups in India: The role of caste and class From: Health Sociology Review | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: Kumar, Anant | Copyright eContent Management Pty Ltd Aug 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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With the United Nations Millenium Declaration of 2000, the establishment of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) has been identified as a significant strategy in addressing the alarming levels of poverty and marginalisation that have accompanied global development. SHGs are small, voluntary associations of people from the same socio-economic background that have been established for the purpose of solving shared social and economic problems through self-help and mutual help. Such grass-roo...

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