India Health and Human Development Aspects

India or the Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, in fact the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. India is still struggling with malnutrition, high infant mortality rate, diseases such as dengue fever, hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria and pneumonia with diarrhoeal diseases the primary causes of early childhood mortality. Maternal mortality in rural areas are among the highest in the world. In this book, the editor has gathered research papers from India published over the past three years in several Nova Science journals in the hope that readers will find this research of interest. The work also provides a picture of health issues in modern India.