Full Description
This book brings together the findings from three studies across four sites: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Kerala. It aims to understand and explain the diverse nature of health inequities along with processes and historical contexts which create, configure, and sustain health inequities among tribal populations in India. The book reveals that beneath the oft-repeated storyline of the poor health of tribal communities lies a more nuanced reality of varied experiences across different tribal communities; and within-group differentials among the same community. The book also forcefully brings home the inadequacy of commonly used health indicators such as morbidity and mortality to describe the multiple dimensions of lack of well-being experienced by the tribal communities.
Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Boxes 6
Acknowledgements 9
Foreword
T.K. Sundari Ravindran, Renu Khanna and Vandana Prasad 11
1. Health Inequities and the Health of Tribal Communities in India
T.K. Sundari Ravindran, Ganapathy Murugan, Antony Stanley, Hisham Moosan, Rama Baru and Aditi Hegde 15
2. Study Methodologies Renu Khanna, Jennifer Liang, Sulakshana Nandi, Antony Stanley, Hisham Moosan and N. Nakkeeran 55
3. Findings Jennifer Liang, Vandana Prasad, Sulakshana Nandi, Renu Khanna, N. Nakkeeran and Rama Baru 87
4. Discussion and Recommendations T.K. Sundari Ravindran, Renu Khanna, Vandana Prasad, N. Nakkeran, Jennifer Liang, Sulakshana
Nandi and Rama Baru 155
Bibliography 181
Index 193
List of Contributors 201
