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India is one of the fastest-growing developing nations of the world today. The urban population is expected to rise at least seven percent by 2026. This expansion and explosion of the urban sector will initiate several environmental and health issues which will directly and indirectly promote the morbidity and thrust many challenges upon us Presently, around half a million children below five years of age have been suffering from diarrhoea annually due to unsafe potable water, poor sanitation, and unhygienic condition in India. At this backdrop, this chapter examines the association of urbanization, the condition of drinking water, patterns of sanitation with the health condition (ARI/diarrhoea) of children in urban India. The present study is based on the latest published NFHS-4 dataset. Descriptive analysis and Logistic Regression techniques have been applied to explain an association between ARI & diarrhoea among the children under investigation and water, sanitation, and various socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Indian households. We found that diarrhoea (12.3%) and Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) (2.3%) are significantly diseased among urban India. Among the children ( |
