Table of Contents

1.Health Outcomes and Policy in India.- 2. Sanitation and Hygiene.- 3.The Social Orientation of India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Program.- 4. Child Malnutrition.- 5.The Health of Elderly Persons.- 6. Deaths in the Family.- 7. Inequality and Well-Being.- 8. Summary and Conclusions.

About the Author

Vani Kant Borooah is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Ulster. He is a past President of the European Public Choice Society and of the Irish Economic Association. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2006. His work has been mainly in the areas of unemployment, inequality, poverty, and economic development. His most recent publications are Europe in an Age of Austerity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Caste, Discrimination, and Exclusion in Modern India (2015); Education in a Divided Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Votes, Parties, and Seats: A Quantitative Analysis of India Parliamentary Elections, 1962-2014 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).