Migration, Health And Development
Contents: Preface. I. Migration and urbanisation: 1. Household remittances, inequality and poverty: evidence from the state of Kerala, India/Adeline Pelletier. 2. Female labour mobility and urban employment in India/Brinda Viswanathan and K. Shanthi. 3. Some facets of migration to districts of Maharashtra/Dipti Mukherji and V.S. Phadke. 4. Population trends of an emerging city: the case of Navi Mumbai/Deepak Kapoor and Rita Abbi. 5. Migration and development: migration patterns of the Hmong in Vietnam through history/Nguyen Tran Lam. 6. Impact of urbanisation on work-life balance/Elizabeth Mathews. II. Population, development and environment: 7. Changing pattern of population growth and socio-economic characteristics in the fringe villages of Guwahati city/Semim Wara Begum and Bimal K. Kar. 8. Effects of population growth on environmental degradation in India/C.M. Lakshmana. 9. Understanding environmental concern: application of new environmental paradigm scale in rural West Bengal/Pradip Swamakar and Arun Kumar Sharma. 10. Projection of cancer incident cases for India till 2016/N.S. Murthy, M. Dhar and K. Chaudhury. 11. Trends in cancer incidence in greater Mumbai: an epidemiological assessment/Balkrishna B. Yeole. III. Ageing: 12. Rapid fertility decline and age-structural transition in Iran: causes and consequences/Amir H. Mehryar, S. Ahmad-Nia and Shahla Kazemipour. 13. Harnessing human resource of older persons for promoting social interaction and environment protection/Ng Sor Tho. 14. A geographical perspective on the patterns of ageing in the tribal areas of the north-eastern region of India/Debendra Kumar Nayak. IV. Demography of ethnic groups: 15. Ethnic differences in fertility in uplands of Kanchanaburi, Thailand/Jian Hu. 16. Whom to Marry? Spouse selection in the small tribes of Nilambur Valley, South India/Seetha Kakkoth. 17. Inequality in the society in terms of standard of living index/R.C. Yadava and Arvind K. Shukla. V. Population policies and programmes: 18. Reproductive health services remain missing at the grassroots level: evidence from a time-use study of service providers in rural Gujarat/N.P. Das and Urvi Shah. 19. Health modernity and utilisation of health services: a pilot study in Madhya Pradesh/A.S. Dey and A. Shrivastava. 20. The road map to hospitalisation: tackling health problem in rural Meghalaya/Sandip Mitra, Chaiti S. Biswas, Dilip C. Nath, Manoranjan Pal and Biswanath Bhattacharya.
Migration health and development are considered to be the three interrelated issues in the present development scenario. The book which examines the linkages between these three is based on the analysis of both micro and macro data drawn from censuses large sample surveys and field studies primarily conducted in Asian countries with special emphasis on India.
With 20 research papers thematically arranged into five sections on Migration and Urbanisation; Population Development and Environment; Ageing; Demography of Ethnic Groups; and Population Policies and Programmes the book promises to be of immense value for social scientists including population scientists urban and regional planners policy makers and administrators.
