Health Inequities in India

TK Sundari Ravindran is Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.Rakhal Gaitonde is a PhD scholar at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.

• Chapter 1. Structural Drivers of Inequities in Health TK Sundari Ravindran, Rakhal Gaitonde & Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas.- Chapter 2. Conceptual Approaches to Examining Health Inequities Rakhal Gaitonde.- Chapter 3. Research on Inequities and Inequalities in Health in India: A Mapping of the Field Rakhal Gaitonde.- Chapter 4.  Health inequities in India by Socio-economic Position Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas.- Chapter 5. Inequities in Health in India and Dalit and Adivasi Populations Sudharshini Subramaniam.- Chapter 6. Gender-based Inequities in Health in India Priyadarshini Chidambaram.- Chapter 7. Other Socially-Constructed Vulnerabilities: Focus on People Living with HIV/AIDS and Internal Migrants Grace A. Chitra.- Chapter 8. The Role of the Health System Rakhal Gaitonde.- Chapter 9. Health Equity Research: A Political Project TK Sundari Ravindran, RakhalGaitonde, Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas, Sudharshini Subramaniam, Priyadarshini Chidambaram and Grace A. Chitra.