Health Index in Bangaru Telangana

Health Index in Bangaru Telangana
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Telangana became the 29th state of India, separated from undivided Andhra Pradesh on 2nd June 2014.

Telangana became the 29th state of India, separated from undivided Andhra Pradesh on 2nd June 2014. The aspirations of the people as expressed during the Telangana movement were in favor of a decentralized model of economic development and for innovative public policies to promote the standard of living, knowledge, and longevity by removing inequalities and vulnerabilities.

Human development is the expansion of people’s freedom to live long, healthy and creative lives. The construction of a Human Development Index that combines three dimensions of development–such as long and healthy life, knowledge and decent standard of living–reflects the approach of the UNDP.

It is interesting to know the contribution of each component to the change in HI between 200-05 and 2011-12. The decomposition of changes in HDI across the districts reveals that the share of standard of living in the total change is higher for most of the districts. While the share of health in total change is higher for Karimnagar, health and education occupied second and third places in most of the districts. However, in case, of Medak and Ranga Reddy districts, share of health is least.

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