Editors:
- Presents various viewpoints on the core issues of health and healthcare across diverse socioeconomic backgrounds
- Includes papers covering three broad dimensions: determinants of health status, methods and modeling of health and healthcare, and facilities and prevalence of morbidity
- Contains extensive analyses of fertility, morbidity, and mortality features
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Determinants of Status of Health
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Methods and Modelling
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Utpal Kumar De
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Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Manoranjan Pal
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Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Premananda Bharati
About the editors
Manoranjan Pal is currently a Professor at the Economic Research Unit (ERU) of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. At the institute, besides teaching graduate and postgraduate courses, he is also engaged in carrying out projects of the Government of India and other organizations, while also guiding doctoral students. He was the Head of the ERU and Professor-In-Charge of the ISI’s Social Sciences Division (SSD). He worked as Member Secretary, Board of Directors, International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC), Kolkata, for more than 10 years starting from February 1999. Prof. Pal has held the post of a Visiting Professor at many international institutions. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed national and international journals and books. His research interests include the measurement of poverty, inequality and segregation, applied econometrics, andhealth and nutrition. Professor Pal’s name is included in the World 2013 Pearl Anniversary Edition in Marquis Who’s Who, inclusion in which is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in their own fields of endeavor.
Premananda Bharati is currently a Visiting Professor at the Biological Anthropology Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He was Professor and Head of the same unit before his retirement in 2016, after having served at the institute for more than 30 years. His fields of interest include human biology, physical anthropology, growth, nutrition, poverty, gender issues and demography. He has taught at the Center of Statistics, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Pretoria, South Africa. Prof. Bharati was named the International Man of the Year (1993/94) by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England; and Man of the Year 1994 by the American Biographical Instit
ute, North Carolina,USA. He is a fellow of the Human Biology Association, Michigan, USA. In addition to teaching, he has published more than 100 research papers in journals of national and international repute and completed a number of research projects. He has visited America, Europe, and Asia extensively in connection with short-term courses and has delivered invited lectures and presented papers at various international and national seminars and conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Issues on Health and Healthcare in India
Book Subtitle: Focus on the North Eastern Region
Editors: Utpal Kumar De, Manoranjan Pal, Premananda Bharati
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6104-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6103-5Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5568-4Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6104-2Published: 08 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 465
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Care Management, Health Economics, Development and Health