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Outline
Definitions
Urbanization trends
Impacts of Urbanization on Health
WHO Initiatives on Urban Health
Urban Health Care Delivery System in
India
Policies & Schemes relevant to India
National Urban Health Mission
Role of Various Sectors
Definitions - 1
What is an urban area?
Definitions - 2
What is an urban slum?
i.
Definition - 3
What is urbanization?
Urbanization refers to the change in size, density and
heterogeneity of cities
Urbanisation trends - 1
Indian Scenario 2011
Total Population
1028.6 Million
Urban Population
286 Million (27.8%)
Growth rate
Rural 17.9 %
Urban 31.2 %
Estimated Slum
Population
60 Million
Urbanization trends - 2
Movement of people from rural to urban areas
with population growth equating to urban
migration
A double edged sword
Environmental degradation
Population demands that go beyond the environmental
service capacity, such as drinking water, sanitation, and
waste disposal and treatment
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Urbanization trends - 3
Slums
Migration
Illiteracy
Unhygienic
conditions
Overcrowding
Unemployment
Communicable
diseases
Non-Communicable
diseases
Stretching of
overburdened
systems
Poverty
Crimes
Injuries
Stress
Life style
modification
Mental
illness
Migration-cobweb
IMPACT OF URBANISATION
ON HEALTH
Environmental concerns
Housing and shelter quality: strong health determinants
Health hazards of poor water supply and sanitation
Violence and crime
Mental health, loneliness and depression
Substance abuse
Road traffic accidents
Climate change
Fuel
Health inequity
Urban
Poor
All
India
Urban
Poor
NFHS 2
51.5
21.2
28.1
52.5
44.5
63.9
25.9
8.3
12.3
26.3
21.7
39.0
2.8
1.8
2.1
3.0
2.7
3.8
28.6
11.4
16.3
28.1
25.1
29.5
29.0
33.0
32.0
30.8
31.1
31.0
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Indicators
Urban
Poor
All
India
Urban
Poor
NFHS 2
54.3
83.1
74.7
43.7
52.0
49.6
18.5
41.8
34.8
18.8
23.1
47.0
70.0
19.7
44.0
78.5
67.4
28.9
38.6
43.5
50.7
84.2
73.4
37.4
46.6
53.3
58.8
48.5
50.9
57.4
55.3
54.7
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Urban
Poor
Urban
Non
Poor
Overall
Urban
Overall
Rural
All
India
Urban
Poor
NFHS 2
39.9
65.4
57.6
38.6
43.5
40.3
27.3
31.5
30.3
22.4
24.5
17.7
44.7
38.6
40.7
48.6
46.4
44.3
56.2
66.1
63.1
54.7
56.7
52.7
54.2
33.2
39.6
50.7
48.0
52.5
47.1
26.2
32.7
45.6
42.5
48.0
71.4
59.0
63.0
71.5
69.5
79.0
Neonatal Mortality
34.9
25.5
28.7
42.5
39.0
45.5
Infant Mortality
54.6
35.5
41.7
62.1
57.0
69.8
Under-5 Mortality
72.7
41.8
51.9
1381.9
74.3
102.0
Indicators
Urban
Poor
All
India
Urban
poor
NFHS 2
48.7
58.0
55.8
45.3
48.5
43.0
7.6
19.8
16.9
7.2
10.1
4.6
41.1
38.2
38.9
38.1
38.3
38.4
14.1
8.3
10.0
14.6
13.2
16.7
5.7
4.1
4.5
6.9
6.2
8.5
8.4
4.2
5.2
7.2
6.6
8.2
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Urban
Poor
Urban
Non
Poor
Overall
Urban
Overall
Rural
All
India
Urban
poor
NFHS 2
18.5
62.2
50.7
11.8
24.5
13.2
72.4
30.7
41.6
69.3
42.0
72.4
47.2
95.9
83.2
26.0
44.7
40.5
461
258
307
469
418
535
63.4
89.1
83.2
50.0
60.9
42.1
0.47
0.31
0.35
0.25
0.28
na
53.3
49.1
50.4
91.6
81.1
na
10.1
5.8
6.8
14.2
11.8
16.7
15
18
19
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CHALLENGES TO HEALTH
SYSTEM
Socio
Demographic
Operational
KEY CHALLENGES TO
URBAN HEALTH
SERVICES
Administrat
ive
Various administrative units with little
coordination.
Districts and zones not clear
Lack of grass root level structures like PRIs
Dual
burden of
diseases
Medical colleges
Provide tertiary health care services as well as primary
health care services to urban areas
NUHM framework - 1
PUHC
(For every 50,000
Population)
SWASTHYA
CHOWKI
(For every 10,000
population)
BASTI VIKAS
MANCH
(upto 500
households or
2500 population)
Mahila Arogya
Samiti
(20 -100
Households)
5
Unit
s
4
Unit
s
ANM 1
Male Community Worker - 1
5
Unit
s
AYUSH Doctor 1
PHN 1
Pharmacist 1
ANM 1(HQ) + 5
(field)
Dresser 1
Nursing orderly - 1
Soc. Mob. Officer 1
Counsellor - 1
SHGs
Seed
Money
NUHM framework - 2
North
Eastern
Programme
Region
Urban
Development
Integrated
Programme
Housing
&
Slum
Development
Is a reality
Has reached to considerable proportions
Leading to increased growth of slums
Will increase further to greater proportions in the
foreseeable future
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