Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health

Type Book Section - Access to Maternal and Child Health Care: Understanding Discrimination in Selected Slum in Delhi
Title Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2017
Page numbers 327-347
Publisher Springer
URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-81-322-3583-5_18
Abstract
Discrimination in the name of ‘caste’, ‘class’ and ‘gender’ is very much prevailing in Indian scenario. But the gender-based discrimination can be called as multiple discrimination, as a same person comes under the deprived caste (dalit) as well as the deprived gender (women). In case of the access to the health care services by the women it has been experienced the everywhere in India and in the cases of dalit women it can be found the extreme. Delhi is the capital of India representing the people from almost all Indian States. The slums in Delhi are bearing the similar population distribution as well. Being the lowest income quintal living in slums, people are experiencing the poor access to the health care services in general. In case of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) it has been deterioration of the services. There are multiple factors responsible for the poor health care services and success to it by the people. Economic factor can be one of the major factors but in the cases of Kusumpur Pahari we cannot strike out the system of discrimination based on the caste in particular. This study has been undertaken to probe into the intermediate factors that responsible in discriminating access the MCH care as well as the general health care by the women in the study area. The study slum has represents mixed culture of population representing rural Indian as well as the modern; as it is situated in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi. Hence, this study has been trying to understand the pattern of discrimination in accessing health care by the people in general and by the women in particular.

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