Urbanization impacts on health of metro cities in India

Abstract

India is consistently urbanizing along with the other developing countries. The metropolitan cities in India are witnessing sustained population growth together with urbanization and industrialization. Large cities, in particular, are horizontal to suffer from health, environmental and poor living conditions of slums. The direct effect of poor living conditions is poor health. This paper provides a critical outlook on the factors affecting the health and other living conditions of slum population in metro cities by considering the data of NFHS-3 and Census of India, furthermore the study analyze the factors through logistic regression analysis and computing composite index score and ranks for Health, Slum Living Performance indicators in the metropolitan cities of India.