Sunil Rajpal
Biographic Data
| ID | 272802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunil Rajpal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunil |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajpal |
| SIGNATURE | RAJPAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | IIHMR University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8607-1878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trends in nulliparous singleton alive births by cesarean section in India
Unnecessary cesarean surgeries pose significant short and long-term risks, affecting fertility, future pregnancies, and child health outcomes. Timely monitoring and precise targeting are crucial to mitigate additional health and economic burdens. This study examines trends and patterns in cesarean deliveries among nulliparous singleton births across all 36 states and 720 districts in India, comparing public and private hospitals between 2016 and …
Changes in prevalence of alcohol and tobacco consumption across districts of India, 2016 and 2021
The national decline in tobacco and alcohol consumption indicates progress. However, there remains a need for continuous and targeted interventions to target high-consumption pockets and address geographic disparities. The results of the present study indicate that interventions focusing on changing tobacco and alcohol consumption should consider the geographical variation at smaller administrative units. By implementing evidence-based policies a…
Women’s Working Status and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in India
Small area variations in four measures of poverty among Indian households
India has seen enormous reductions in poverty in the past few decades. However, much of this progress has been unequal throughout the country. This paper examined the 2019–2021 National Family Health Survey to examine small area variations in four measures of household poverty. Overall, the results show that clusters and states were the largest sources of variation for the four measures of poverty. These findings also show persistent within-distr…
Socioeconomic and geographic variation in coverage of health insurance across India
Introduction: In India, regular monitoring of health insurance at district levels (the most essential administrative unit) is important for its effective uptake to contain the high out of pocket health expenditures. Given that the last individual data on health insurance coverage at district levels in India was in 2016, we update the evidence using the latest round of the National Family Health Survey conducted in 2019-2021. Methods: We use the u…
Small area variation in severe, moderate, and mild anemia among women and children
India is home to the highest global number of women and children suffering from anemia, with one in every two women impacted. India's current strategy for targeting areas with a high anemia burden is based on district-level averages, yet this fails to capture the substantial small area variation in micro-geographical (small area) units such as villages. We conducted statistical and econometric analyses to quantify the extent of small area variati…
Why market orientation matters for agriculture and fishery workers? Unravelling the association between households’ occupational background and caloric deprivation in India
These insights when combined with the occupation-specific random-effects suggest that investing in skill development of agricultural and fishery workers may have immense potential to strengthen their nutritional status and to reduce deprivation levels
Child Undernutrition and Convergence of Multisectoral Interventions in India
in India has been formed to synchronize and converge various nutrition-related interventions across ministries of union and state governments under a single umbrella. Given the large variation in number, nature and impact of these interventions, this paper aims to quantify the contribution of each intervention (proxied by relevant covariates) toward reducing child stunting and underweight in India. The interventions are classified under six secto…
Stunting among Preschool Children in India
Adequate nutritional intake for mothers during pregnancy and for children in the first two years of life is known to be crucial for a child's lifelong physical and neurodevelopment. In this regard, the global nutrition community has focused on strategies for improving nutritional intake during the first 1,000 day period. This is largely justified by the observed steep decline in children's height-for-age z scores from birth to 23 months and presu…
Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services in India
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program launched in India in 1975 is one of the world's largest flagship programs that aims to improve early childhood care and development via a range of healthcare, nutrition and early education services. The key to success of ICDS is in finding solutions to the historical challenges of geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to various services under this umbrella scheme. Using birth…
Does the Choice of Metric Matter for Identifying Areas for Policy Priority? An Empirical Assessment Using Child Undernutrition in India
Ratio-based prevalence and absolute headcounts are the two most commonly accepted metrics to measure the burden of various socioeconomic phenomenon. However, ratio-based prevalence, calculated as the number of cases with certain conditions relative to the total population, is by far the most widely used to rank burden and consequently for targeting, across different populations, often defined in terms of geographical areas. In this regard, target…
Association between anthropometric‐based and food‐based nutritional failure among children in India, 2015
Inadequate dietary intake is a critical underlying determinant of child undernutrition. This study examined the association between anthropometric-based and food-based nutritional failure among children in India. We used the 2015-2016 National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau data where anthropometric outcomes and food intake were both measured for each child. We followed the World Health Organization child growth reference standards to define anthrop…
Assessing associational strength of 23 correlates of child anthropometric failure
Despite the broad consensus that investments in nutrition-sensitive programmes are required to reduce child undernutrition, in practice empirical studies and interventions tend to focus on few nutrition-specific risk factors in isolation. The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey provides the first opportunity in more than a decade to conduct an up-to-date comprehensive evaluation of the relative importance of various maternal and child health an…
Swimming against the tide
There is an increasing policy focus on India’s demographic potential and associated growth benefits. This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the net growth benefits derived from an increased share of working-age population in India. The analysis adopts decomposition and econometric methods, using data at the state and national level in India, to robustly test the nature and magnitude of the demographic dividend in India. We find that the…
Institutional delivery in India, 2004–14
To achieve faster and equitable improvements in maternal and child health outcomes, the government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission in 2005. This paper describes the equity-enhancing role of the public sector in increasing use of institutional delivery care services in India between 2004 and 2014. Information on 24 661 births from nationally representative survey data for 2004 and 2014 is analysed. Concentration index is comput…
Unravelling the socioeconomic gradient in the incidence of catastrophic health care expenditure
Assessing associational strength of 23 correlates of child anthropometric failure
Despite the broad consensus that investments in nutrition-sensitive programmes are required to reduce child undernutrition, in practice empirical studies and interventions tend to focus on few nutrition-specific risk factors in isolation. The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey provides the first opportunity in more than a decade to conduct an up-to-date comprehensive evaluation of the relative importance of various maternal and child health an…
Swimming against the tide
There is an increasing policy focus on India’s demographic potential and associated growth benefits. This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the net growth benefits derived from an increased share of working-age population in India. The analysis adopts decomposition and econometric methods, using data at the state and national level in India, to robustly test the nature and magnitude of the demographic dividend in India. We find that the…
Institutional delivery in India, 2004–14
To achieve faster and equitable improvements in maternal and child health outcomes, the government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission in 2005. This paper describes the equity-enhancing role of the public sector in increasing use of institutional delivery care services in India between 2004 and 2014. Information on 24 661 births from nationally representative survey data for 2004 and 2014 is analysed. Concentration index is comput…
Swimming against the tide
There is an increasing policy focus on India’s demographic potential and associated growth benefits. This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the net growth benefits derived from an increased share of working-age population in India. The analysis adopts decomposition and econometric methods, using data at the state and national level in India, to robustly test the nature and magnitude of the demographic dividend in India. We find that the…
Institutional delivery in India, 2004–14
To achieve faster and equitable improvements in maternal and child health outcomes, the government of India launched the National Rural Health Mission in 2005. This paper describes the equity-enhancing role of the public sector in increasing use of institutional delivery care services in India between 2004 and 2014. Information on 24 661 births from nationally representative survey data for 2004 and 2014 is analysed. Concentration index is comput…
Unravelling the socioeconomic gradient in the incidence of catastrophic health care expenditure
Association between anthropometric‐based and food‐based nutritional failure among children in India, 2015
Inadequate dietary intake is a critical underlying determinant of child undernutrition. This study examined the association between anthropometric-based and food-based nutritional failure among children in India. We used the 2015-2016 National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau data where anthropometric outcomes and food intake were both measured for each child. We followed the World Health Organization child growth reference standards to define anthrop…
Assessing associational strength of 23 correlates of child anthropometric failure
Despite the broad consensus that investments in nutrition-sensitive programmes are required to reduce child undernutrition, in practice empirical studies and interventions tend to focus on few nutrition-specific risk factors in isolation. The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey provides the first opportunity in more than a decade to conduct an up-to-date comprehensive evaluation of the relative importance of various maternal and child health an…
Child Undernutrition and Convergence of Multisectoral Interventions in India
in India has been formed to synchronize and converge various nutrition-related interventions across ministries of union and state governments under a single umbrella. Given the large variation in number, nature and impact of these interventions, this paper aims to quantify the contribution of each intervention (proxied by relevant covariates) toward reducing child stunting and underweight in India. The interventions are classified under six secto…
Stunting among Preschool Children in India
Adequate nutritional intake for mothers during pregnancy and for children in the first two years of life is known to be crucial for a child's lifelong physical and neurodevelopment. In this regard, the global nutrition community has focused on strategies for improving nutritional intake during the first 1,000 day period. This is largely justified by the observed steep decline in children's height-for-age z scores from birth to 23 months and presu…
Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services in India
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program launched in India in 1975 is one of the world's largest flagship programs that aims to improve early childhood care and development via a range of healthcare, nutrition and early education services. The key to success of ICDS is in finding solutions to the historical challenges of geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to various services under this umbrella scheme. Using birth…
Does the Choice of Metric Matter for Identifying Areas for Policy Priority? An Empirical Assessment Using Child Undernutrition in India
Ratio-based prevalence and absolute headcounts are the two most commonly accepted metrics to measure the burden of various socioeconomic phenomenon. However, ratio-based prevalence, calculated as the number of cases with certain conditions relative to the total population, is by far the most widely used to rank burden and consequently for targeting, across different populations, often defined in terms of geographical areas. In this regard, target…
Why market orientation matters for agriculture and fishery workers? Unravelling the association between households’ occupational background and caloric deprivation in India
These insights when combined with the occupation-specific random-effects suggest that investing in skill development of agricultural and fishery workers may have immense potential to strengthen their nutritional status and to reduce deprivation levels
Small area variation in severe, moderate, and mild anemia among women and children
India is home to the highest global number of women and children suffering from anemia, with one in every two women impacted. India's current strategy for targeting areas with a high anemia burden is based on district-level averages, yet this fails to capture the substantial small area variation in micro-geographical (small area) units such as villages. We conducted statistical and econometric analyses to quantify the extent of small area variati…
Small area variations in four measures of poverty among Indian households
India has seen enormous reductions in poverty in the past few decades. However, much of this progress has been unequal throughout the country. This paper examined the 2019–2021 National Family Health Survey to examine small area variations in four measures of household poverty. Overall, the results show that clusters and states were the largest sources of variation for the four measures of poverty. These findings also show persistent within-distr…
Socioeconomic and geographic variation in coverage of health insurance across India
Introduction: In India, regular monitoring of health insurance at district levels (the most essential administrative unit) is important for its effective uptake to contain the high out of pocket health expenditures. Given that the last individual data on health insurance coverage at district levels in India was in 2016, we update the evidence using the latest round of the National Family Health Survey conducted in 2019-2021. Methods: We use the u…
Trends in nulliparous singleton alive births by cesarean section in India
Unnecessary cesarean surgeries pose significant short and long-term risks, affecting fertility, future pregnancies, and child health outcomes. Timely monitoring and precise targeting are crucial to mitigate additional health and economic burdens. This study examines trends and patterns in cesarean deliveries among nulliparous singleton births across all 36 states and 720 districts in India, comparing public and private hospitals between 2016 and …
Changes in prevalence of alcohol and tobacco consumption across districts of India, 2016 and 2021
The national decline in tobacco and alcohol consumption indicates progress. However, there remains a need for continuous and targeted interventions to target high-consumption pockets and address geographic disparities. The results of the present study indicate that interventions focusing on changing tobacco and alcohol consumption should consider the geographical variation at smaller administrative units. By implementing evidence-based policies a…
Women’s Working Status and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in India
Medicine (14 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Socioeconomic status (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Geography (6 works)