Population aging poses a demographic burden on country such as India with inadequate social security systems and very low public investment in health sector. This challenge of accelerated transition is coupled by the rural-urban disparity access to healthcare services among elderly people India. An important objective India's National Health Policy (2017) "progressively achieve universal coverage" which posited upon mitigating sub-national that necessitates identifying drivers for targeted...

Although awareness and treatment rates of hypertension have significantly improved in recent years, the prevalence undiagnosed untreated remains a major public health concern for Indian policymakers. While urban-rural variation prevalence, diagnosis, control, is reasonably well-documented, explanation behind such poorly understood given dearth studies conducted on exploring determinants rural-urban gap undiagnosed, untreated, uncontrolled India. In view this research gap, our paper aims to...

While there is a substantial body of research on inequalities in child nutrition along the axes gender and socioeconomic gradient, socio-religious differences health outcomes remain grossly understudied. The handful studies differential has found Muslim advantage chances survival nutritional status over Hindus despite their comparatively lower status, which undeniably warrants investigating pathways through this paradoxical manifests.Using data from National Family Health Survey, 2015-16, we...

Background Despite the progress in achieving gender equality to a certain extent, women are found be more susceptible health disadvantages compared men older ages. However, research Indian context has mainly remained restricted subjective that heavily depends on individual’s perception, which may affect validity of results. This study addresses this gap by complementing investigation differentials self-reported outcomes (mobility and functional limitations) with objectively measured status...

Abstract Background: Life satisfaction (LS), a useful construct in the study of psycho-social well-being, is an important indicator healthy aging. With view to investigate whether improved longevity India accompanied by commensurate levels well-being and contentment among older adults , this aimed examine (1) association between LS sleep quality Indian aged 60 years above (2) mediating role depression that accounts for (3) moderating functional limitation mediation. Methods: Cross-sectional...

Objective The study attempts (a) to compute the degree of socio-economic inequity in health care utilization and (b) decompose analyze drivers among adults (20–59 years) India during periods 2014 2017–18. Data source analysis has been done by using unit level data Social Consumption: Health (Schedule number 25.0), National sample Survey (NSS), corresponding 71st 75 th rounds. Methods Odds ratios were computed through logistic regression examine effect status on seeking behaviour ailing adult...