Using nationally representative data, we estimate intergenerational persistence in health in India. Results from the … instrumental variable method show that children of anemic mothers are more likely to be anemic, with an intergenerational health … status may play a role in the persistence of poor health across generations in developing countries. …

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what … are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health … state health insurance schemes in reducing the vulnerability to financials risks of medical care using catastrophic health …

Human right agencies across the globe in collaboration with scientists have advocated against the negative health … possible health risks in underage working children. The paper focuses special attention to developing countries with the …

We investigate whether better population health may impact economic performance through improvements in technical … then model health (district infant mortality rate) as a determinant of (in)efficiency in a second stage, controlling for a …

This paper investigates the role of demand-side incentives to mothers and supply-side incentives to community health … workers (ASHAs) in improving maternal and child health. These conditional cash benefits were part of a nationwide health … entitled socio-economically backward mothers with cash assistance if they chose to give birth at public health institutions …

concentrated around whether the high morbidity in Kerala was real perceived, given the high literacy, better health care … infrastructure and higher utilization of health care services. Though Kerala has achieved revolutionary progress in the health care … better health care development; on the other hand, it outstrips all other Indian states in terms of morbidity in terms of …