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Rakesh Chandra

Researcher at Oxford Policy Management

Publications -  6
Citations -  58

Rakesh Chandra is an academic researcher from Oxford Policy Management. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rural area & Tamil. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 43 citations.

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Maternity or catastrophe: A study of household expenditure on maternal health care in India

TL;DR: It was found that maternal health care expenditure in urban households was almost twice that of rural households, and increasing education level, higher consumption expenditure quintile and higher caste of women was associated with increasing odds of impoverishment due to maternalhealth care expenditure.
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A Disaggregated Analysis of Change in Household Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure on Healthcare in India, 1995-2004

TL;DR: The analyses indicated a little improvement in the performance of government health sector in terms of out-of pocket expenditure, which was more visible in developed and less developed states than in least developed states and morevisible in rural areas than in urban areas.
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Urban Transformations and New Dynamics of Exclusions: A Mixed Method Study of Health and Well-Being in an Expanding City of India

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined linkages between socio-spatial exclusion and health and well-being through certain pathways, and found that continued exclusion suffered by this urban village amid the city influenced the health of its inhabitants negatively, particularly their patterns of health.
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Wealth-based inequality in the exclusive use of hygienic materials during menstruation among young women in urban India

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors calculated the Erreygers normalized concentration index (CI) for India and each of its states to measure wealth-based inequality in the exclusive use of hygienic materials during menstruation among women in urban India.