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An Index of Maternal and Child Healthcare Status in India: Measuring Inter- and Intra-State Variations from Capability Perspectives

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Despite remarkable progress in past few decades India’s current maternal and child mortality levels fall significantly short to attain many of the targets of MDGs. The variation in attainments across and within regions has always been a crucial dimension of Indian concerns. The present paper takes a closer look at the spatial variation of maternal and child healthcare status in India by summarising a set of constituent indicators that are instrumental in nature, and result in debilitating outcomes for women and their newborn. Taking the stock of information generated by the third round of District Level Health and Facility Survey (DLHS-3) this paper adopts the Pena Distance Method to gauge the spatial variations. The states are classified first in terms of their MCH status in 2007–2008. At later stage intrastate disparities are captured by measuring rural–urban inequality, and inter-district disparity within states. Key results indicate that the overall state ranking is, to a significant extent, explained by the intrastate variations. However, the major contribution of this paper lies in quantifying the relative role of constituent indicators that are responsible for the existing disparities across and within state boundaries. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

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  • Santanu Ray, 2014. "An Index of Maternal and Child Healthcare Status in India: Measuring Inter- and Intra-State Variations from Capability Perspectives," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 117(1), pages 195-207, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:117:y:2014:i:1:p:195-207
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0340-9
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