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That inequality lies at the root of the ill health of a population is not new; this fact has only been thrown into sharper focus by the Covid-19 pandemic. The findings of the Oxfam report,
Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story, which documents the existence of sharp inequalities across caste, class, gender and religion-based categories on several health indicators, are a testament to the prevailing challenge. India’s reduced health budget, persistent under-funding of its public healthcare systems and its focus on encouraging private but often unaffordable healthcare entities have led to the deepening of disparities in people’s access to medical services. The data are suggestive of a discernible advantage enjoyed by affluent constituencies over those belonging to socially disadvantaged groups such as scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Other kinds of binaries are also at play. Hindus have greater healthcare capital than Muslims, as do men over women
Rich outlive poor by 7.5 years, upper caste women live 15 years more than Dalits: Oxfam report Shubhangi Misra © Provided by The Print
New Delhi: Stark inequalities in access to healthcare exist in India across class and caste, a new Oxfam report on the country’s health system found.
Oxfam’s Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story showed how the class and caste inequalities lead to difference in age expectancy, infant mortality and sanitation, among others.
The report, which used data from rounds 3 and 4 of the National Family Health Survey and various rounds of National Sample Survey, described the findings as an indicator of the “social gradient in health”.