Issues on Health and Healthcare in India: Focus on the North Eastern Region (India Studies in Business and Economics)

This book addresses health and healthcare issues in India with a special focus on the Northeast region. Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, it highlights key issues in health and healthcare and outlines the actions needed to achieve the desired results in these areas as laid out in the UN Millennium Development Goals. In addition to introducing some new questions on health and healthcare development, it presents cross-country analyses, and examines the convergence of healthcare across Indian states, as well as mortality and morbidity in the Northeast. The book also explores the regional complexities involved in the discussion of these topics. It presents a number of specific techniques, such as two-level logistic regression, analysis of mental health, probabilistic and predictive analysis of nutritional deficit, and generalized linear mixed models, that can be used to analyze mortality and morbidity and factors affecting out-of-pocket expenses in the healthcare context. Lastly, it presents concrete case studies substantiating the theoretical models discussed. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for health researchers, professionals and policymakers alike--Publisher's website Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction (Utpal Kumar De, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Two-Level Logistic Regression Analysis of Factors Influencing Anemia Among Nonpregnant Married Women of Reproductive Age in Bangladesh (Md. Golam Hossain, Kamruzzaman, Abdul Wadood)....Pages 11-19 Prevalence and Associated Determinants of Low Birth Weight in Developing Countries: A Multi-country Analysis from Nationwide Population-Based Survey (Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Md. Nurul Islam, Md. Ripter Hossain, Md. Golam Hossain)....Pages 21-40 On the Determinants of Child Health in India: Does Teenage Pregnancy Matter? (Dipankar Roy, Avijit Debnath)....Pages 41-52 Determinants of Psychological Well-being and Its Impact on Mental Health (Gurudas Bandyopadhyay)....Pages 53-95 Maternal Anemia: A Village Level Empirical Observation in Assam (Pranti Dutta)....Pages 97-108 Identification of the Factors Influencing Child Immunization in West Bengal: A Case Study of Darjeeling District (Maumita Ghosh, Shrabanti Maity)....Pages 109-125 Health in North-Eastern States of India: An Analysis of Economic Vulnerabilities (Amrita Ghatak, N. Lalitha)....Pages 127-161 Association of Economic Inequality with Health Inequality: Women in Northeast India (Susmita Bharati)....Pages 163-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 Prevalence of Malaria and Hb E in Northeast India: An Econo-genomics Study (R. Sarada, B. K. Misra, T. Vasulu)....Pages 179-212 Child Deprivation in Indian Context: Concern About Health- and Education-Related Issues (Soumyendra Kishore Datta, Krishna Singh)....Pages 213-228 Health Performance Index and Healthcare Expenditure in Assam: Are There any Structural Change? (Rimee Bhuyan, Nizara Kalita, Gayatri Goswami)....Pages 229-239 Assessing Burden of Infant Mortality on Socio-Economic Classes in North-Eastern India (Sanjeeva Kumar Jha, Ningthoukhongjam Vikimchandra Singh)....Pages 241-253 Is India on the Path to Replacement Fertility Soon? Exploring the Role of Rural–Urban Differential Pace and Timing of Fertility Decline (Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty, Mallika Deb)....Pages 255-271 Prevalence of Child Undernutrition in India: Estimating Extent of Deficits Using Distributions of Nutritional Outcomes (Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty)....Pages 273-291 Health Expenditures Across Major States of India: Issues of Convergence and Equality (Ramesh Chandra Das, Kamal Ray, Utpal Das)....Pages 293-306 Health and Deprivation: A Suggested Application to the North-Eastern States of India (Atanu Sengupta, Parnasudha Karmodak)....Pages 307-318 Inequalities in Child Survival in Eight Northeastern States of India (Partha De)....Pages 319-337 The Determinants Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditure in Bangladesh: Evidence from Household Income and Expenditure Survey-2010 (Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Md. Nurul Islam, Md. Ripter Hossain et al.)....Pages 339-350 Front Matter ....Pages 351-351 Access to Life-Saving Medicines and Healthcare: A Case Study of Aurangabad District of Bihar (Imteyaz Ahmad, Anita Rath)....Pages 353-378 Meteorological Conditions and Malaria Cases—Study in the Context of Meghalaya (Strong P. Marbaniang, Laishram Ladusingh)....Pages 379-393 Comparative Study of Health-Related Physical Fitness Among Children Attending Municipal and International Schools in Nasik City (Manjusha Bhakay, Sabiha Vali)....Pages 395-407 Faces of Primary Health Centres (PHC) of Bengal Dooars: A Review in Terms of Potential Service Delivery Space Index (PSDSI) and Physical Accessibility Index (PAI) (Subhasis Bhattacharya)....Pages 409-424 Factors Affecting Morbidity and Utilization of Healthcare Services: A Case Study of Nagaon District of Assam (Nirmala Devi, Rajshree Bedamatta)....Pages 425-444 Morbidity Pattern of Elderly in India (Poulomi Chowdhury, Mausam Kumar Garg, Laishram Ladusingh)....Pages 445-458 Association of Nutritional Status and Drinking Water Among the Children of North East India (Madhuparna Srivastava, Papiya Roy, Susmita Bharati, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati)....Pages 459-465