Malnutrition in Slums
| Slums in our cities have become a regular feature of the urban landscape; NSSO estimates suggest that there were 52,000 slums in 2002 - notified and otherwise across the entire country in urban areas. People of vastly different economic and social background live together in the slums with poor infrastructure and little ability to cope with economic and other shocks such as adverse health events (illness, short duration or chronic, and even death). Interestingly, a number of research studies report that the correlation between incomes and staying in slums is nowhere near-perfect suggesting that households who live in slums may actually be well above conventional standards of poverty as measured by urban poverty lines. The research plan is to examine the relationship between economic status, residing in a slum and health outcomes. We have begun to look at multiple data sources such as the NFHS, DLHS, and IHDS to construct nationally representative estimates of costs of accessing healthcare in urban areas. |
Project Team
Hema Swaminathan and Arnab Mukherji
Sponsor
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, GOI
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Malnutrition in Slums
| Project Team: | Hema Swaminathan and Arnab Mukherji | |
| Sponsor: | Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, GOI | |
| Project Status: | Ongoing (Initiated in 2011) | |
| Area: | Public Policy | |
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