Public Health and Menstrual Hygiene Practices in India

Smruti Bulsari is a Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex, where she works on National Institute of Health and Care Applied Research Collaboration (NIHR - ARC), and Alzheimer’s Society-funded research on dementia. She has worked on research projects funded by ESRC, British Academy, ICSSR and Government of Gujarat. She has a PhD in Economics and has experience working with large datasets.Kiran Pandya is Vice Chancellor of Sarvajanik University. He was also appointed as the Member, National Statistical Commission (NSC), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). He was a Professor and Head in the Department of Human Resource Development, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat (Gujarat, India). He obtained the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics by the University of Sussex (UK), for which, he was awarded the Academic Staff Scholarship by the Commonwealth Commission in the UK.Anil Gumber is a Visiting Professor in health economics and medical statistics at the Research Centre for Healthcare & Communities, Coventry University (UK). He also holds an Emeritus Senior Fellow position at the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University. He holds a PhD in Economics and was a postdoctoral research scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Awareness, Beliefs, and Taboos around MenstruationChapter 3: Direct Costs of Menstrual Hygiene PracticesChapter 4: Indirect Costs of Menstrual Health and Implicit Costs of Menstrual HygieneChapter 5: Discussion and Policy Prescriptions