My comment:
(1) 苏博拉梅尼安 S. V. Subramanian, PhD,
Associate Professor,
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health,
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/venkata-sankaranarayanan/
(2) The VOA report is based on
Özaltin E, Hill K and Subramanian SV, Association of Maternal Stature
With Offspring Mortality, Underweight, and Stunting in Low- to Middle-Income
Countries. Journal of American Medical Association(JAMA), 303:1507-1516 (
Apr. 21, 2010).
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/15/1507?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=mother+height&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
I am unsure if you can have access to the full article, whose subjects of "
54 low- to middle-income countries" includes India but not China.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/303/15/1507?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=mother+height&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
(3) In the same issue, there is an editorial that accompanies the article.
Christian P, Maternal Height and Risk of Child Mortality and Undernutrition.
JAMA. 303:1539-1540 (2010).
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/303/15/1539