Although life expectancy has improved remarkably with wide availability of curative medicines, health (besides education) is still a highly neglected sector in the development process of India. Particularly neglected area of health is the provision of maternal and child health care services. The neglect covers the areas of infrastructure and skills development and quality of care. Consequently, levels of health care services utililization for mothers and children are among the lowest even by the standards of developing world, although there are vast amounts of regional ...

This book examines the state of child health and well-being in India. It traces the roots of child health inequalities in India, draws on the latest NFHS-V, 2019–21 data, and analyses various child health and nutrition indicators from the perspective of equity and efficiency.