Synergy of Health, Poverty and Economic Development (With Reference To Rural Odisha)

Improvements in health result in improvements in national income, poverty could decline on account of both the standard ‘trickle-down’ effects and an increased financial capacity of nations to set up safety nets. Poverty can have an adverse impact on health because of malnutrition and also due to poor sanitation; unsafe drinking water supply etc. Odisha is an eastern state of India. Health infrastructures of Odisha are far from requirements and the outcomes of health are far from satisfactory. This is because of, both, inadequate and unequal health care facilities to the population as well as due to insufficient affordable capacity of majority of the people. There is a heavy burden of diseases prevalent in Odisha. This is a micro level study base on rural Odisha.