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Effect of Urbanization on Health
Urban Health in Uttar Pradesh: Challenges and Opportunities

Presented in Workshop on Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Scenario in the Slums of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh: Implications for Programme and Policy 14th April’09, New Delhi April 09, By Dr. Gajraj Prasad Add. Director, MCH Directorate of Family Welfare Government of Uttar Pradesh

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Growing Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Uttar Pradesh Health related Problems among Urban Poor Barriers limiting access to MCH care Upcoming opportunities i Utt U i t iti in Uttar Pradesh

Growing urbanization and urban poverty in Uttar Pradesh

Growing Urban Poverty in Uttar Pradesh Growing Urban Poverty in Uttar Pradesh
• Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India, is also urbanizing rapidly. • Urban population of Uttar Pradesh will increase from 4.1 b l f d h ll f crore1 in 2008 to 6.7 crore in 20262. • An estimated 1.17 crore comprising 30.6 percent of the state’s urban population is poor3. • Uttar Pradesh houses the largest number of urban poor in a single state4. • Public Health efforts in UP need to take care of an estimated: • 340,0005 annual pregnancies among urban poor • 3.3 lakh6 annual births among urban poor • 11.7 lakh7 children under-5 among urban poor
1-Projections for 2008 by Technical Group on Population Projections 2-Census, 2001 population, Projections, 2001-26 3 Poverty 3-Poverty Estimates 2004-2005 and 1999-2000 2004 2005 1999 2000 4-Report on State of Urban Health in Uttar Pradesh, UHRC: 2006 5- Based on NFHS-3 reanalysis by wealth quintiles; UHRC 2008 6-Based on CBR 28.2 for urban poor population in UP and 1.17 crore urban poor population 7 - Based on NFHS-3 reanalysis by wealth quintiles; UHRC 2008

L l f U b i ti A Di t i t i Utt P d h Level of Urbanization Across Districts in Uttar Pradesh

6 largest Cities in Uttar Pradesh

Health related problems among urban poor

Health Related Problems among Urban Poor
Urban poor suffer much poorer health status and
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