Acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea globally identified as poising major threats to survival of children under the age of five. This is also true for India, where these two diseases have been the major causes behind infant mortality both in 1997 as well as 1998. Prevention as well as...

Prevention as well as effective treatment of respiratory infections and diarrhoea depends on several individual, household and community level factors. The objective of this article is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the occurrence of such diseases and utilization of...

Ability to ensure ‘safe food’ for its populace is a key issue for developing countries from the public health perspectives. In recent years there has seen some efforts towards generation of ‘consumer awareness’ through actions by non-governmental organizations and other research...

It has been increasingly recognised that apart from medical inputs, a wide range of socio-economic factors plays an important role in determining health. The objective of the study has been to ascertain the impact of predominantly medical inputs on health status of individuals and simultaneously...

The primary query of this paper centres on the role played by income in determining the extent of fund allocated by Indian states for improvement of health of its population. Drawing data from the fourteen major states of India over a time span of twenty-three financial years (1974-75 to...