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Assessing Health Inequalities Among Indian Children:: A Decomposition Analysis
Assessing Health Inequalities Among Indian Children:: A Decomposition Analysis
Assessing Health Inequalities Among Indian Children:: A Decomposition Analysis
Indian Children:
A Decomposition Analysis
By
Jalandhar Pradhan
Guide: Advisory Committee:
Dr. P. Arokiasamy Prof. S. Parasuraman
Dr. L. Ladu Singh
Introduction
The distributive dimension of health or health inequality has
become prominent on global policy agenda, as researchers
have come to regard average health status as an
inadequate summary of country’s health performance
(WHO, 2000).
Comparison
Absolute and relative difference
Aggregation
Sensitivity to mean
Sensitivity to population size
Subgroup consideration
Indian scenario
Within Group
Between Group Socioeconomic inequality
Among states Ethnic inequality
Gender inequality
CMIE
Census
NSS
Methodology
Objective 1
Between group
2m0 can, in turn, be calculated from the probability of dying in the first two years of life,
ln[1 2 q0 ]
2 q0 :2 m0
2
Inequality Index (II) developed by WHO working group
n n 3
II
i 1 j 1
si s j / 2n 2 s
Where, si is the expected survival time between birth and age two of individual i, and
s is the average expected survival time in the first two years of life in the population.
Within Group
I (v ) (1 C (v ))
n
C (v) 1 ( yi / n. ) wi ( Ri, v )
i 1