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Basic Amenities, Deficiency-induced Ailments, and Catastrophic Health Spending in the Slums of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Vol. 58, Issue No. 11, 18 Mar, 2023
Sanatan Nayak, Surendra Singh Jatav

The pattern of disease that comes about due to inadequate availability and poor quality of drinking water as well as substandard sanitation and micro-environmental (drainage, sewerage, and solid waste disposal) facilities in the slums of Lucknow are investigated in this paper. It estimates the relevant health costs and catastrophic health spending in these slum households. The results suggest that limitations in these public utilities cause numerous water-borne and faecal-transmitted infections as well as other infectious diseases. Consequently, the poorest sections of the urban population of Lucknow, who live in slums, spend almost a third of their consumption expenditure on out-of-pocket expenditure, and over half of these disease-affected households have encountered CHS. It suggests a comprehensive and integrated approach for reviving a large number of short- and long-term policies, which involve specifically developing a policy for providing free medical facilities to all acute and chronic cases in poor households, which would lead to a reduction of OOPE and CHS in slum areas.

Future of Electric Vehicles in India

Vol. 57, Issue No. 49, 03 Dec, 2022
Ojaswin Kashyap

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A Case for Functional Social Protection Portability to Address Vulnerabilities of Migration-affected Children

Vol. 57, Issue No. 44-45, 29 Oct, 2022
Children from low-income migrant households are invisible in migration discourses. Despite existing provisions under various policies and schemes, access to social protection for migrant children has been fragile. Disruptions in education and inconsistent access to nutrition and primary healthcare sets them back further than non-migrant children from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds. COVID-19 has underscored that groups like migrants who face specific vulnerabilities are in acute need of tailored social protection programmes/measures. Functional portability measures that make opportune use of existing provisions in schemes are the first step towards this. Building on existing initiatives, policy frameworks must support adaptive social protection responses for this important segment of India’s population.

Income Inequity in the Utilisation of Inpatient Services

Vol. 57, Issue No. 28, 09 Jul, 2022
Vanita Singh, Amit Garg

‘Health for All’ in Neo-liberal Times

Vol. 57, Issue No. 21, 21 May, 2022
Ramya Kumar

Striving for Equity: Healthcare in Sri Lanka from Independence to the Millennium, 1948–2000 by Margaret Jones, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2020; pp xiii+ 259, `790.

Decoding the Three Pandemic Budgets

Vol. 57, Issue No. 21, 21 May, 2022
Mukesh Kumar, Pratap C Mohanty

Despite substantial socio-economic disparities in health, education, and nutrition outcomes, the government is pitching human development expenditure against capital expenditure. In a welfare state, social sector should be the centre of policy prescriptions. Instead of an imperfect assumption of trickle-down, the the government needs to realise that growth and development must go hand in hand.

Mandatory Rice Fortification with Iron

Vol. 57, Issue No. 12, 19 Mar, 2022

The lack of evidence and misplaced policy design underlie the government’s push for fortifying staples with iron.

 

Underemphasis on Nutrition in Budget 2022–23

Vol. 57, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2022
Mukesh Kumar, Pratap Mohanty

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Drivers of Child Nutritional Change in India

Vol. 57, Issue No. 9, 26 Feb, 2022
Biplab Dhak

A trend analysis is undertaken to account for the child nutritional change in India by covering 25 years of the National Family Health Surveys from 1992–93 to 2015–16. The 34% overtime decline in child undernutrition has been possible mainly because of the improvement in parental education, household economic status, coverage in immunisation, and reproductive healthcare. However, the onus has shifted towards education and economic status. The combined share of contribution to the nutritional change has increased from 48.4% to 71% between 1992–93 to 2005–06 and 2005–06 to 2015–16. While there has been a saturation of persistent government interventions for immunisation, antenatal care, and institutional delivery, education and economic status have become stronger predictors. They ensure better childcare practices, sanitation, proper diet, and access to healthcare. Therefore, the future of child nutrition lies largely in the improvement of quality education and inclusive economic development. 

Population, Health Status, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Vol. 57, Issue No. 6, 05 Feb, 2022
K S James, S K Singh, H Lhungdim, Chander Shekhar, L K Dwivedi, S Pedgaonkar, F Arnold

The fact sheets with key results of the National Family Health Survey-5, conducted in 2019–21, from 36 states/union territories were released recently by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In this article, the authors highlight the emerging population and health issues from the NFHS-5 to monitor the country’s progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and the key policy issues to strengthen the population and health programmes in the country.

 

Skeletal Health Services Cannot Resist Pandemics

Vol. 57, Issue No. 3, 15 Jan, 2022

The huge interstate disparities and glacial pace of improvement further add to the problems.

 

Non-communicable Diseases and Their Macroeconomic Impact in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 51, 18 Dec, 2021
Arunika Agarwal, Alyssa Lubet, Simiao Chen, Alexander Khoury, David E Bloom

Non-communicable diseases now account for two-thirds of the total mortality in India and are projected to account for an estimated 75% of the total mortality by 2030. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, and diabetes are the country’s leading causes of death.

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