Fishing in Salty Waters: Poverty, Occupational Saline Exposure, and Women’s Health in the Indian Sundarban

Collecting wild tiger prawn seedlings, also known as prawn post-larvae (PL), from rivers and creeks is an important occupation for more than 100,000 poor women in India’s Sundarban estuarine delta. Prawn PL collecting requires many hours of immersion in saline river water. This paper uses a large household survey to explore the determinants of poor women’s engagement in this occupation and the health impacts. The results reveal high significance for two variables: (i) the opportunity wage, proxied by years of education and (ii) child-care demands, proxied by the household child-dependency ratio. Together, these variables are sufficient to distinguish between women who have no engagement with prawn PL collecting and those with many years of engagement. The probability of self-reported health problems is also significantly higher for women with more saline exposure from prawn PL collecting and whose drinking water is from tube wells with higher salinity.

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So near, yet so far: access to safe abortion services remains elusive for poor women in India

BMJ Case Reports ◽

10.1136/bcr-2017-220980 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. bcr-2017-220980 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sudip Bhattacharya ◽

Mohammad Abu Bashar ◽

Amarjeet Singh

Keyword(s):

Safe Abortion ◽

Poor Women ◽

Women In India

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Contraceptive Use Dynamics Among Urban Poor Women in India

Population Change and Public Policy - Applied Demography Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-57069-9_4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 61-79

Author(s):

Dewaram Abhiman Nagdeve

Keyword(s):

Urban Poor ◽

Contraceptive Use ◽

Poor Women ◽

Women In India

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Having a dry start into life - Drought impacts on child health in Malawi

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9660 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Anne Zimmer ◽

Charlotte Plinke ◽

Katharina Lehmann-Uschner ◽

Stefan Lange

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Cross Sections ◽

Household Survey ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Large Household ◽

Lower Height ◽

Food Security And Nutrition ◽

And Coping ◽

Future Education ◽

The Impact

<p>Under- and malnutrition &#8211; particularly in the first years of life &#8211; can severely impact the physical and mental development of a child. This can have lasting consequences for the child&#8217;s future education, health and wellbeing outcomes. At the same time, climate change is expected to intensify the frequency and severity of droughts in many regions of the world, exacerbating concerns about food security and nutrition. Using repeated cross-sections of a large household survey in Malawi &#8211; a country where the majority of the population is engaged in smallholder subsistence agriculture and where virtually all agriculture is rainfed &#8211; we assess the impact of drought events on children&#8217;s health outcomes. We focus on stunting, a measure of chronic undernutrition and explore drought effects at different periods of a child&#8217;s development. To minimize concerns about recall error or reporting bias, we combine geo-referenced household data on child anthropometrics with biophysical data at high spatial resolution to measure drought exposure with the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The advantage of the SPEI over other drought indicators such as the SPI is that it accounts not only for precipitation but also other climate variables relevant to the water balance and thus agricultural productivity. We find that children exposed to a drought shock have a significantly lower height-for-age z-score (HAZ) and are at greater risk of being stunted. Furthermore, we explore which household characteristics and coping strategies might have helped in mitigating the drought impact on child health.</p>

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Neonatal Deaths in Rural Southern Tanzania: Care-Seeking and Causes of Death

ISRN Pediatrics ◽

10.5402/2012/953401 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Mwifadhi Mrisho ◽

David Schellenberg ◽

Fatuma Manzi ◽

Marcel Tanner ◽

Hassan Mshinda ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Verbal Autopsy ◽

Birth Asphyxia ◽

Household Survey ◽

Care Seeking ◽

Neonatal Deaths ◽

Rural Districts ◽

Common Causes ◽

Large Household ◽

Quantitative Results ◽

At Home

Introduction. We report cause of death and care-seeking prior to death in neonates based on interviews with relatives using a Verbal Autopsy questionnaire. Materials and Methods. We identified neonatal deaths between 2004 and 2007 through a large household survey in 2007 in five rural districts of southern Tanzania. Results. Of the 300 reported deaths that were sampled, the Verbal Autopsy (VA) interview suggested that 11 were 28 days or older at death and 65 were stillbirths. Data was missing for 5 of the reported deaths. Of the remaining 219 confirmed neonatal deaths, the most common causes were prematurity (33%), birth asphyxia (22%) and infections (10%). Amongst the deaths, 41% (90/219) were on the first day and a further 20% (43/219) on day 2 and 3. The quantitative results matched the qualitative findings. The majority of births were at home and attended by unskilled assistants. Conclusion. Caregivers of neonates born in health facility were more likely to seek care for problems than caregivers of neonates born at home. Efforts to increase awareness of the importance of early care-seeking for a premature or sick neonate are likely to be important for improving neonatal health.

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POVERTY & HEALTH: INCIDENCE, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES OF MATERNAL ANAEMIA AMONG WOMEN POOR GROUPS IN INDIA - A LITERATURE SURVEY

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH ◽

10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i10.2019.378 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (10) ◽

pp. 75-93

Author(s):

Vasudevan C.

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Deficiency ◽

Literature Survey ◽

Maternal Anaemia ◽

Women Poor ◽

The Poor ◽

Poor Women ◽

Women Groups ◽

Poverty And Health ◽

Women In India ◽

Structure Patterns

This Article Surveyed the Nature and Structure of Maternal Ananemia among the Poor Women Groups in India which exclaimed the Nature of Poverty and Health Hazardness are Associated deeply with in maternal Ananemia among the poor women groups. This study at large extent claimed that the structure, patterns and morphic of maternal anaemia problems among the poor women who substantially lactating nutritional deficiency in different form which causes and consequences the destitutes during their pregnancy. This study also observed various nature of incidence, causes, and consequences of maternal anaemia among the poor women in India. It also highlights the Management and Administration of Maternal Anaemia among of the poor women during pregnancy in India.

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Risk and Resilience: How Is the Health of Older Adults and Immigrant People Living in Canada Impacted by Climate- and Air Pollution-Related Exposures?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph182010575 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (20) ◽

pp. 10575

Author(s):

McKenzie H. Tilstra ◽

Ishwar Tiwari ◽

Leigh Niwa ◽

Sandra Campbell ◽

Charlene C. Nielsen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Health Impacts ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Risk And Resilience ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Local Climate ◽

Immigrant Populations ◽

Reported Health ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Background: In the rapidly shifting Canadian climate, an ageing population, and increased migration, a greater understanding of how local climate and air pollution hazards impact older adults and immigrant populations will be necessary for mitigating and adapting to adverse health impacts. Objectives: To explore the reported health impacts of climate change and air pollution exposures in older adults and immigrant people living in Canada, identify known factors influencing risk and resilience in these populations and gaps in the literature. Methods: We searched for research focused on older adults and immigrants living in Canada, published from 2010 onward, where the primary exposures were related to climate or air pollution. We extracted data on setting, exposures, health outcomes, and other relevant contextual factors. Results and Discussion: We identified 52 eligible studies, most focused in Ontario and Quebec. Older people in Canada experience health risks due to climate and air pollution exposures. The extent of the risk depends on multiple factors. We found little information about the climate- and air pollution-related health impacts experienced by immigrant communities. Conclusions: Further research about climate- and air pollution-related exposures, health, and which factors promote or reduce resiliency in Canada’s older adults and immigrant communities is necessary.

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Participatory strategies in income generation programmes for poor women in India

10.5353/th_b2924713 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Meenakshi Sanjeev Bhatt

Keyword(s):

Income Generation ◽

Poor Women ◽

Women In India

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Proximity to Natural Gas Wells and Reported Health Status: Results of a Household Survey in Washington County, Pennsylvania

Environmental Health Perspectives ◽

10.1289/ehp.1307732 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 123 (1) ◽

pp. 21-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 97

Author(s):

Peter M. Rabinowitz ◽

Ilya B. Slizovskiy ◽

Vanessa Lamers ◽

Sally J. Trufan ◽

Theodore R. Holford ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Natural Gas ◽

Household Survey ◽

Washington County ◽

Gas Wells ◽

Reported Health

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Are self-reported health inequalities widening by income? An analysis of British pseudo birth cohorts born, 1920–1970

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health ◽

10.1136/jech-2019-213186 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 255-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Stephen Jivraj

Keyword(s):

Cross Sections ◽

Household Income ◽

Household Survey ◽

Birth Cohorts ◽

Income Groups ◽

Before And After ◽

Inequality In Health ◽

Reported Health ◽

Relative Differences ◽

General Household Survey

IntroductionThe health of the British population has been shown to be worsening by self-reported health and improving by self-reported limiting illness for those born before and after 1945. Little is known about the inequality in health difference across British birth cohorts by income.MethodsRepeated cross-sections from the British General Household Survey, 1979–2011, are used to create pseudo birth cohorts born, 1920–1970, and their gender stratified, age-adjusted limiting illness and self-rated health (SRH) are estimated by household income tertiles. Absolute and relative differences between the poorest and richest income groups are reported.ResultsAbsolute inequalities in limiting illness between the richest and poorest households have doubled in women and increased by one and a half times in men for those born in 1920–1922 compared with those born in 1968–1970. Relative inequalities in limiting illness increased by a half in women and doubled in men. Absolute inequalities in SRH between the richest and poorest households increased by almost half in women and more than half in men and relative inequalities increased by 18% in women and 14% in men for those born in 1920–1922 compared with those born in 1968–1970.ConclusionInequalities in self-reported health at the same age by household income have widened for successively later-born British cohorts.

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