Editors:
- Brings together a vast expanse of research on health inequities in India in a single volume
- Identifies research gaps and proposes areas for future research on health inequities
- Discusses all the major documented axes of marginalisation in one volume
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India. Amongst the BRICS countries, India ranks the lowest in the gender-gap index and has the highest poverty rate, and there is clear evidence that socio-economic inequalities have increased in India in the twenty-first century. These have direct impact on the health conditions of its people; however, there has been relatively little concerted research attention on health inequities in India. This volume fills the gap by synthesizing research evidence since the year 2000 on the topic. This is perhaps the first volume on this topic of such scope and breadth. Its uniqueness lies in the synthesis of evidence across a range of axes of disadvantages within a single volume: socio-economic position, caste, gender, other socially constructed vulnerabilities such as disability, HIV status, migrant status; and health-system factors contributing to or mitigating inequities in health. Each core chapter not only summarizes research findings but also engages critically with the perspectives reflected in the chapters and proposes a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which health inequities result.Â
This volume highlights and addresses research gaps in both methodology and content, and is valuable to researchers and students of public health and allied health disciplines, including the social sciences, and also to policy makers and donors.
Editors and Affiliations
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Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India
T.K. Sundari Ravindran
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Centre for Technology and Policy (CTaP), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Rakhal Gaitonde
About the editors
Rakhal Gaitonde is a PhD scholar at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Inequities in India
Book Subtitle: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence
Editors: T.K. Sundari Ravindran, Rakhal Gaitonde
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5089-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5088-6Published: 22 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5316-1Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5089-3Published: 21 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Medical Sociology, Health Economics