Social Sciences: Ageing/Gerontology

Aravinda Meera Guntupalli

BSc, MA, MPS, PhD

Primary position:
Lecturer in Gerontology

I joined the Centre for Research on Ageing in September 2010 as a lecturer after working at the Medical Research Council, Southampton. Prior to that, I was working as a research fellow at the University of Southampton on the health and morbidity of friendly society members in the late 19th and 20th centuries. I obtained my PhD in economics at Tuebingen University, Germany after obtaining an MA Anthropology at Hyderabad Central University and an MPS Demography at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai).

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"My research interests are motivated by welfare issues and health."

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Article

Harris, Bernard, Gorsky, Martin, Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Hinde, Andrew (2012) Long-term changes in sickness and health: further evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society. The Economic History Review, 719-745. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00607.x)
Gorsky, Martin, Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera, Harris, Bernard and Hinde, Andrew (2011) The 'cultural inflation of morbidity' during the English mortality decline: a new look. Social Science & Medicine, 1775-1783. (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.09.028)
Alok, Bhargava, Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Lokshin , Michael (2011) Healthcare utilization, socioeconomic factors and child health in India. Journal of Biosocial Science(doi:10.1017/S0021932011000241)
Kehoe, S.H., Krishnaveni, G.V., Lubree, H.G., Wills, A.K., Guntupalli, A.M., Veena, S.R., Bhat, D.S., Kishore, R., Fall, C.H.D., Yajnik, C.S. and Kurpad, A. (2011) Prediction of body-fat percentage from skinfold and bio-impedance measurements in Indian school children. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition(doi:10.1038/ejcn.2011.119)
Harris, Bernard, Gorsky, Martin, Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Hinde, Andrew (2011) Ageing, sickness and health in England and Wales during the mortality transition. Social History of Medicine(doi:10.1093/shm/hkq102)
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera (2008) Book review. Econometrics, statistics and computational approaches in food and health sciences: by Alok Bhargava, (World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2006.) £41.00, ISBN: 981-256-841-7, hardback. Journal of Biosocial Sciences, 40, (5), 797-798. (doi:10.1017/S0021932008002915)
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Nangia, Parveen (2008) Women’s autonomy, contraceptive use and fertility: a comparative study of tribal and non-tribal women in India. Man in India, 88, (1-2)
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera (2007) Book review. Children at War. By P. W. Singer. Pp. 264. (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2006.) £10.95, ISBN 0-520-24876-7, paperback. Journal of Biosocial Science, 39, (6), 939-940. (doi:10.1017/S0021932007002076)
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Baten, Joerg (2006) The development and inequality of heights in North, West, and East India 1915-1944. Explorations in Economic History, 43, (4), 578-608. (doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2005.05.005)
Guntupalli, A. Meera and Chenchelgudem, P. (2004) Perceptions, causes and consequences of infertlity among the Chenchu tribe of India. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 22, (4), 249-259. (doi:10.1080/02646830412331298305)

Book

Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Heyberger, Laurent (2006) The newsletter of the cliometric society, La Crosse, USA, Cliometric Society
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Sunder, Marco (2004) The newsletter of the cliometric society, La Crosse, USA, Cliometric Society

Book Section

Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera (2011) Is there any relation between fatness and reproductive health? A study on body mass index and reproductive health of Indian women. In, Tremayne, S. and Unnithan, M. (eds.) Fatness, Food and Childbearing: Cultural Perspectives on the Body, Nutrition and Reproductive Practices. Oxford, GB, Berghahn. (In Press)
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Baten, Joerg (2009) Measuring gender well-being with biological living-standard indicators. In, Harris, Bernard, Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena (eds.) Gender and wellbeing: historical and contemporary perspectives. Aldershot, UK, Ashgate Publishing, 43-58.
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera (2008) Qualitative research on reproductive health: A special focus on Mumbai sex workers living with HIV/AIDS. In, Sridhar, Devi (ed.) Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies. New Delhi, Sage, 36-54.
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Moradi, Alexander (2008) What does gender dimorphism in stature tell us about discrimination in rural India, 1930-1975? In, Pal, Manoranjan, Bharati, Premananda and Vasulu, T (eds.) Gender and Discrimination: Health, Nutritional Status, and Role of Women in India. New Delhi, India, OUP.
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera (2007) Nutritional transition in India: a special focus on severe malnutrition and increasing obesity. In, Hussain, Azmal (ed.) Managing Overweight and Obesity. Punjagutta, India, ICFAI.
Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera (2005) Role of social anthropology in the study of HIV/AIDS in the context of globalization. In, Misra, Kamal K. (ed.) Anthropology, New Global Order, and Other Essays. New Delhi, India, Concept Publishing.
Meera, A., Nangia, P. and Roy, T.K. (2003) Reproductive behavior of tribal women in Madhya Pradesh. In, Adak, Dipak Kumar, Bhattacharya, Biswanath and Ghosh, Rohini (eds.) Demography and Health Profile of the Tribals (A Study of M.P.). New Delhi, India, Anmol.

Thesis

Guntupalli, A.M. (2007) Anthropometric evidence of Indian welfare and inequality in the 20th Century. University of Tuebingen, Department of Economics, Doctoral Thesis, 250pp.
 

Research Interests

Aravinda Guntupalli’s research interests are motivated by welfare issues and health. Her recent work is concerned with gender differentials in wellbeing, nutritional transition and reproductive health.

Referee

Studies in family planning, world development, demographic research, population studies, feminist economics, Journal of Biosocial Science, Social Science and Medicine, and economics and human biology

Work in progress

  1. The health and morbidity of friendly society members in the late 19th and 20th centuries
  2. Gender differences in health: evidence from developing countries.

GERO6020/GERO6011: Ageing Health and Wellbeing

GERO6017/GERO6013: Researching Contemporary Issues in Ageing Societies

GERO6014: Quantitative Research Methods (DL)

Dr Aravinda Meera Guntupalli
Centre for Research on Ageing
Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

Room Number: 58/4113

Telephone: (023) 8059 2452
Facsimile: (023) 8059 8649
Email: A.M.Guntupalli@soton.ac.uk