Assessment of Household Environment and Its Potential Effect on Health in Urban India

Presently compounded effect of population dynamics increases the urban population growth. Consequently, most of the urban dwellers has forced to live in sub-standard housing areas which are at greater risk of infectious... [ view full abstract ]

Presently compounded effect of population dynamics increases the urban population growth. Consequently, most of the urban dwellers has forced to live in sub-standard housing areas which are at greater risk of infectious disease. In 2015, infectious disease considers as a second global risk. In light of above context, it becomes necessary to understand the trend of infectious disease and assess the prominent household environmental factor responsible for infectious diseases. An attempt has also been made to assess the relative change of household environmental attributes between 2004 and 2014. The study used the data based on “Morbidity and Health Care” from the last three round of National Sample Survey viz. 52nd, 1998; 60th, 2004; and 71st, 2014. To analyse data study used a different statistical tool like crosstab method to calculate trend of diseases. Correlation technique has used to find out the major influential indicator for the different diseases. The relative change has been calculated between decades for assessing the improvement of major household environmental attributes. The three model of logistic regression has been done to see the relationship between a response variable and predictor variables. Results prove that diseases like vector born disease (VBD) and air born disease (ABD) is reflecting the incremental trend in three rounds of surveys. The correlation matrix shows that VBD has an inverse relation with education and toilet facility. The ABD is inversely associated with most of the indicators such as household having Flush toilet and using modern means of cooking fuel. Regression results shows that General Muslims has less chance of VBD. Result shows that 0-4 years children, as well as females, are more likely to have water born disease (WBD) compare to other categories. The chance of having ABD is reducing with the increase age.