Socioeconomic inequality in child health outcomes in India: analyzing trends between 1993 and 2021.

ABSTRACT: The health of India's children has improved over the past thirty years. Rates of morbidity and anthropometric failure have decreased. What remains unknown, however, is how those patterns have changed when examined by socioeconomic status. We examine changes in 11 indicators of child health by household wealth and maternal education between 1993 and 2021 to fill this critical gap in knowledge. Doing so could lead to policies that better target the most vulnerable children. We used data from five rounds of India's National Family Health Survey conducted in 1993, 1999, 2006, 2016, and 2021 for this repeated cross-sectional analysis. We studied mother-reported cases of acute respiratory illness and diarrhea, hemoglobin measurements for anemia, and height and weight measurements for anthropomet

SUBMITTER: Jain A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11290299 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature