• Fertility and Women’s Empowerment

• Reproductive and Child Health

• Large Scale Demographic Surveys

• Ph. D (Socio) from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2003
  Thesis titled 'Women’s Status and Fertility Transition: A Case Study of an Agrarian Society in South India' 

Articles

• Is Lifestyle Influencing Morbidity among Elderly?, Journal of Health Management, Vol 10 (2), 2008: 203-17. (with R. Mutharayappa)

• Demographic Change and Women’s Empowerment in Susheela Subramanya, Meera Chakravorthy, and N S Viswanath (eds.), Women in Nation Building: Perspectives, Issues and Implications. 2005: 154-76. Bangalore: Southern Economist

• Incentives for Adoption of Family Planning: Acceptors' and Motivators' Views. The Journal of Family Welfare, 34(4), 1988: 23-35.

• Social Change and Family Planning: A Case Study of Backward Classes. The Journal of Family Welfare, 43(4), 1997: 25-45.

• Gender Issues in the Choice and Adoption of Family Planning Methods. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 3(1), 1996: 57-70.

• Socio-Economic Conditions of the Houseless Population in Rural Areas. The Indian Journal of Social Work, 57(2), 1996: 221-34.

• Sex Composition of Living Children against Socio-Economic Variables while Accepting Family Planning Methods. Demography India, 24(1), 1995: 87-99.

• Differentials in the Acceptance of Family Planning Methods in a High Performance District in Karnataka. The Journal of Family Welfare, 40(2), 1994: 31-39.

• Acceptance of Family Planning Methods in the Cultural Context of Family Structure and Women's Participation in Labour-Force. Social Action, 44(2), 1994: 82-101.

• Family Planning Success: Need for a Regional Approach. Man & Development, 16(3), 1994: 55-69.

• Lifestyle and Health of Elderly in Karnataka (with R Mutharayappa). Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC). 2007

• Reproductive and Child Health (RCH)-District Level Survey  (DLHS-3) Field Monitoring in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu States, Sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. 2008.

Dr. T N Bhat
Assistant Professor
Population Research Centre
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Nagarabhavi P.O. BANGALORE-560072, India
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e-mail: tnbhat@isec.ac.in