This book examines the state of child health and well-being in India. It traces the roots of child health inequalities in India, draws on the latest NFHS-V, 2019-21 data, and analyses various child health and nutrition indicators from the perspective of equity and efficiency.
This volume addresses various contexts and methodologies available to measure health inequalities among Indian children. It also assesses the child's well-being in terms of 'Multidimensional Child Poverty'. As a policy document, this work examines and quantifies the equity and efficiency dimensions of various child health indicators among Indian states. Assessment of between and within group inequalities by various socio-economic groups provides new insights into addressing the issue of health inequalities among Indian children.
An in-depth work on child health and development, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of health and public policy, development studies, health economics, and South Asian studies. It will also be of use to NGOs, policymakers, and think-tanks in the field.
About the Author: Jalandhar Pradhan is working as an Associate Professor, Economics in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela. He received his PhD in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He did his Postdoctoral research work from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Netherlands in the areas of healthcare financing. Presently, he is leading a Centre of Excellence on Public Health Nutrition at NIT, Rourkela in collaboration with UNICEF. He has published more than 50 scientific research articles at the international reviewed journals like Health Policy and Planning, Health Policy, Health Economics Review, PloS ONE, International Journal for Equity in Health etc. He is also working as an Academic Editor to the journal of PloS ONE and BMC Public Health. His research interests include health economics and public policy, healthcare financing, nutrition economics, poverty, inequality and human development, and health analytics.
