Chaurasia, A: Mortality, Health and Development in India 201

Mortality, Health and Development in India is a collection of selected papers presented at Bhopal Seminar 2011. The monograph covers a range of topics including child under nutrition, adult and child mortality, mortality differentials, utilisation of health services, health rationale of family planning in India and in its constituent States. The monograph also covers issues related to the implementation of National Rural Health Mission at the grass roots level, current status of social and economic development across the constituent States of India, changing role of female education on fertility decline, health status of old female widows and role of men in women‘s reproductive health. Poplicy and programme implications of the prevailing mortality, health and development situation in India and strategies to address the situation have also been discussed in the papers included in the monograph.