 An Exploratory Analysis of Deprivation and Ill-Health led Poverty in Urban India: A Case Study of DelhiSamik Chowdhury (), Aasha Kapur Mehta, Suparna Das and Sourabh Ghosh Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne by households themselves and almost all of this is in the form of out-of-pocket spending. Hence this paper attempts to explore the links between urban poverty and ill-health through a case study based on evidence from 150 households with a history of ailment, located in two slum clusters of Delhi. The paper explores the patterns of morbidity, health care utilisation and treatment cost within these households. It further estimates the economic burden of ill-health as measured by illness induced impoverishment, and also brings out its variation across select socio-economic and disease characteristics within the sample households. Keywords: India; health; Delhi; poverty; urban poverty; Slum Dwellers; ill-health; homeless; poor population; jhuggi; jhopdi clusters; healthcare; health services; diseases; socio-economic conditions; morbidity; treatment cost; slum; impoverishment; case study. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:7670 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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