The state of urban health in India; comparing the poorest quartile to the rest of the urban population in selected states and cities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12242530
AutoresSiddharth Agarwal (0000-0002-4293-435X, Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC), autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas13-28
Fecha de publicación2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Urbanization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0956247811398589
OpenAlexW1969627546
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas41
Referencias citadas1

India has the world’s second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in health-related indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest quartile and the rest of the urban population for India and for several of its most populous states. In the poorest quartile of India’s urban population, only 40 per cent of 12 to 23 month-old children were completely immunized in 2004—2005, 54 per cent of under-five year-olds were stunted, 82 per cent did not have access to piped water at home and 53 per cent were not using a sanitary flush or pit toilet. The paper also shows the large disparities in eight cities between the poorest population (the population in the city that is within the poorest quartile for India’s urban areas), the population living in settlements classified as “slums” and the non-slum population. It also highlights the poor performance in some health-related indicators for the population that is not part of the poorest quartile in several states — for instance in under-five mortality rates, in the proportion of stunted children and in the proportion of households with no piped water supply to their home

Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Human settlement · Population · Poverty · Quartile · Sanitation · Slum · Socioeconomics · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Medicine · Social and Economic Development in India · Urban and Rural Development Challenges