Non-communicable Diseases, Affluence, and Gender

[...]based on the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model of the World Health Organization (WHO), the potential cumulative losses to India's economy during 2012-30 are projected to be $6 trillion (Bloom et al 2014b), nearly thrice of India's gross domestic product (GDP) in 201...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2019-11
Main Authors: Yadav, Pratima, Kulkarni, Veena S, Kulkarni, Vani S, Gaiha, Raghav
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chronic illnesses
College faculty
Communicable diseases
Health insurance
Households
Marriage
Older people
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Summary:[...]based on the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model of the World Health Organization (WHO), the potential cumulative losses to India's economy during 2012-30 are projected to be $6 trillion (Bloom et al 2014b), nearly thrice of India's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017.1 The present study addresses the following questions: (i) Has the burden of NCDs shifted to old men and women? (ii) Does the burden vary by their marital status? (iii) Does it vary with the affluence of men and women? [...]never married are better off than currently married. [...]it follows that marriage is not necessarily a barrier against NCDs, especially women, as they are subject to discrimination in allocation of food and medical care. [...]as far as inpatient care is concerned, private hospitals overtook public hospitals and maintained their dominance but their share diminished. Public health system must devote additional resources towards active population-based surveillance. Besides financing, there is a need to develop institutional mechanisms for engagement of adequate human resources for surveillance and disease management (Mishra et al 2016; Chatterjee 2017).
ISSN:0012-9976