Three quarters of India's poor live in rural areas but poverty is concentrated in certain geographical regions. For instance, in 1993-1994 about 50 per cent of the rural poor were concentrated in the four most populated states. However, if one looks at the incidence of poverty at the regional...

This paper focuses on trends in health seeking behaviour of people and choosing between government and private sources, reasons for not accessing health care and the cost of treatment by examining three Rounds of NSS data on health care use and morbidity pattern during 1986-87, 1995-6 and 2004....

This paper focuses on trends in health seeking behaviour of people and choosing between government and private sources, reasons for not accessing health care and the cost of treatment by examining three Rounds of NSS data on health care use and morbidity pattern during 1986-87, 1995-6 and 2004....