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S I Rajan

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PubMed2001

Health concerns among India's elderly.

This article critically examines the health situation among elderly from two sets of independent sources. National Sample Survey in its 42 Round (July 1986-June 1987) canvassed a nationwide survey covering 50,000 households in 8312 villages and 4546 urban blocks in India to understand the socio-economic profile of aged persons. Secondly, an aging survey (1993) was conducted in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, and Karnataka states in India by the authors to study the elderly life in terms of general feeling, living arrangements, living support, social security, health, nutrition, their involvement in social and religious matters, views of old age homes and particularly life preparatory measures. The survey is based on interviews with about 2,253 persons aged 60 years and above, of whom 1325 are males and 928 are females. In fact, this survey is a part of a larger study conducted for the Social Development Section, Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and Pacific (ESCAP), United Nations, Bangkok, along with four other South East Asian countries-China, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand. From the survey conducted by us, we report only the health aspects of the elderly in this paper. The last section examines the major cause of death among elderly as reported from the Model Registration System of the Registrar General of India and concludes with feasible policy prescriptions.

Aged↗
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Induced abortion potential among Indian women.

Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate, especially in the developing world, which has led to speculation on the prevalence of abortion in these regions. A rise in prevalence of abortion is mostly counted in terms of increase in the prevalence of induced abortions which reflects on the reproductive health of women. With the growing concern for the reproductive health of women, the study of abortion has drawn the attention of researchers world-wide. This paper is an attempt to assess the induced abortion potential among Indian women by utilizing information on proportion of unwanted and ill-timed pregnancies obtained through National Family Health Survey, India. This exercise may facilitate a better understanding of the exact prevalence of induced abortion, which necessarily should be less than the estimated potential depending on the levels of unwanted and ill-timed fertility.

Abortion, Induced↗
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Maternal mortality in India: estimates from a regression model.

This report outlines a new technique for the estimation of maternal mortality by relating the sex differentials in mortality for people of reproductive age to the age schedule of fertility. The application of this method to the data from the Sample Registration System for 1982-86 indicates a level of maternal mortality of 580 deaths per 100,000 live births for India as a whole, 638 deaths in rural areas, and 389 deaths in urban areas. Estimates derived for the major states suggest relatively high maternal mortality in the eastern and northern parts of the country. They also indicate a substantial decline in maternal mortality since the 1960s. The decline in the birth rate is estimated to have accounted for nearly one-fourth of the decrease in the maternal death rate and 5 percent of the fall in the maternal mortality ratio in the 10-year period between 1972-76 and 1982-86. The method of estimation described here is well-suited to the data circumstances in India.

Adolescent↗