. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing. While working to improve health service …

determinants of the co-existence of ‘double burden’ of malnutrition among women of reproductive age 15-49 years in Kerala using …

women between 20 to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition and over nutrition and a quantile regression …This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of …

's malnutrition. The children living in slums are more likely to experience anthropometric failure. Research limitations …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the determinants of malnutrition of primary school-age (five to ten …. The composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) is constructed to use an indicator of malnutrition. Findings – The …

Continued population growth and increasing urbanization have led to the formation of large informal urban settlements … observed in these settlements—commonly referred to as “slums”—suggests that slum residence constitutes a major health risk for … investigate this concern empirically. Our results indicate that children in slums have better health outcomes than children living …

Standard models explain urbanization by rural-urban migration in response to an (expected) urban-rural wage gap. The … agglomeration and providing further insights into the phenomenon of urbanization without growth. Both migra- tion and urban … demographics must be considered in debating urbanization. …

An increasing pace of urbanization and the absence of affordable housing has resulted in growth of slums in urban India …. The Government of India (GOI) has been incorporating certain programmes to alleviate poverty , create employment … opportunities and encourage planned urban development in its public policy , yet there has been a fast emergence of slums in the …

–2005 survey data from the India Human Development Survey, we document the electricity situation in slums. We find that while …Unreliable electricity supply is a major obstacle to economic development in countries such as India. While electricity … problems in the rural areas are widely recognized, scholars have yet to analyze the situation in urban slums. Drawing on 2004 …