Health Inequalities of India

The health of people from varied backgrounds, social groups, and countries varies. I will try to define and contrast between unavoidable and unjust health inequalities, as well as between preventable and unavoidable health disparities. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain group-level differences in health, including psychological, material deprivation, health behaviour, environmental, and selection causes. Understanding health inequalities necessitates knowledge of relative versus absolute differences, dose–response versus threshold, composition versus context, place versus space, the life course perspective on health, causal pathways to health, conditional health effects, and group-level versus individual differences.

There is strong evidence that socioeconomic factors such as education, employment status, income level, gender, and ethnicity have a substantial impact on one's health. Health disparities are widespread in the majority of countries, regardless of their economic status. As we descend down the economic ladder, the problem of health inequality becomes more acute. Systematic variations in the health status of distinct demographic groups are known as health inequalities. Individuals and nations alike bear tremendous social and economic consequences as a result of these injustices. Inequalities in health come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Gender, location, age, and other variables all play a part.

Different socioeconomic circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age produce variances in health status or distribution of health resources among different demographic groups.

The fifth in the NFHS series, the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 (NFHS-5), provides data on India's population, health, and nutrition for each state and union territory (UT). Preschool education, handicap, access to a toilet facility, death registration, bathing practises during menstruation, and techniques and reasons for abortion are all included in NFHS-5. The range of clinical, anthropometric, and biochemical testing (CAB) has been enlarged to include assessment of waist and hip circumferences, as well as the age range for blood pressure and blood glucose measurement.

As you can see India still has a long way to go, but this is a move in the right direction.