Part I. Population, Health and Development-Understanding the Intersection.- Chapter 1. Reinvigorating the Health System in India (Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia).- Chapter 2. An Investigation into India’s Experience in Reducing Child Mortality: A Gender Perspective (Usha Ram).- Chapter 3. Inequity in Early Childhood in India: Addressing Challenges (Shilpa Jadhav-Bhakare).- Part II. Innovations in Healthcare.- Chapter 4. Disaster and Health Emergencies: The Indispensable Mobile Health Clinics (Jayanti Saha).- Chapter 5. Health digitalization and its impact on frontline workers: A Study of Anganwadi workers from Poshan Abhiyan (Vaishnavi Mangal).- Part III. Emerging challenges in Health.- Chapter 6. Trend and Correlates of Unmet Need for Healthcare in India (Sandhya R.Mahapatro).- Chapter 7. A comprehensive assessment of nutritional anemia among adolescent in India: an evidence from CNNS (2016-2018) (Sampurna Kundu).- Chapter 8. Hysterectomy Practices and its Associated Factors while assessing the Rural-Urban differences (Manali Swargiary).- Chapter 9. School Education, Health and Sanitation (Shazia Farooq Fazli).- Chapter 10. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene practices among slums population in Bhubaneswar city, Odisha (Ajit Kumar Lenka).- Part IV. Towards Well-Being.- Chapter 11. Discourse on climate change and well-being: examining through the lens of political ecology (Debayanti Bhowmick).- Chapter 12. Well-Being of the Elderly Population in India (Trisha Mukhopadhyay).- Chapter 13. Sexual exploitation of Muslim Naikin Women: A Case Study from Maharashtra (Malika B. Mistry).- Chapter 14. Influence of Domestic Violence on Women’s well-being and SDGs (Sampurna Singh).- Chapter 15. Spirituality, Democracy and Social Well-Being (Anubhuti Jambhulkar).- Chapter 16. Conclusion. Bridging the Social Inequalities in Health.
Dr Sanghmitra S. Acharya currently a Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is former Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and previously taught at the International Institute for Population Sciences. She has held visiting fellowships at institutions in China, the US, the Philippines, and Botswana, and received fellowships from the Asian Scholarship Foundation and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Her research focuses on health, discrimination, gender, and urban marginalization in India. Prof Acharya has presented widely, published in peer-reviewed journals, and delivered lectures at institutions in India and abroad. Her books include Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi (2017), Health and Well-Being of Informal Workers in India (2019), Caste, Covid and Inequalities of Care (2022), and the recent Mapping Identity-induced Marginalisation in India (Springer).
Dr. Sampurna Kundu completed her PhD from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her doctoral research focused on menopausal health. She earned her postgraduate and MPhil degrees in Biostatistics and Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences. She is a Gold Medalist in MSc and was awarded the prestigious DST INSPIRE Doctoral Fellowship. Her research is primarily quantitative, using large-scale demographic datasets, with interests in women's health, population ageing, and child nutrition. She has presented at national and international conferences, published in high-impact journals, and her work on early and premature menopause has been widely cited and covered in the media. She also previously taught statistics at a government medical college in Kolkata, India. Dr. Kundu recently started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the University of Exeter, UK, focusing on menstrual and mental health.
Dr. Sampurna Singh holds a PhD from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, and is a health and development researcher with over 18 years of post-qualification experience. Her work focuses on reproductive health, women's status in rural Uttar Pradesh, and male involvement in health and development. She has worked extensively on issues such as maternal and child health, nutrition, HIV, abortion, early marriage, son preference, domestic violence, and surrogacy, collaborating with organizations including NCAER, ICRW, CARE, JNU, and IIDS. Dr. Singh has presented her research at national and international conferences and has published widely in reputed academic journals.
