Suryanarayana, M. H. - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2008
This study examines the economic profiles of morbidity by disease in Kerala and all-India by estimating Engel … elasticities for diseases and classifying them as between those associated with affluence and deprivation. Morbidity rates, in …, it would be useful to identify those diseases, which afflict the rich proportionately more, that is, diseases with Engel …