Public Health and Menstrual Hygiene Practices in India - Practices, Costs, and Equity Issues

This book examines the equity issues regarding practices of menstrual hygiene and affordability of menstrual products by the lower socioeconomic class in India.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Awareness, Beliefs, and Taboos around Menstruation
Chapter 3: Direct Costs of Menstrual Hygiene Practices
Chapter 4: Indirect Costs of Menstrual Health and Implicit Costs of Menstrual Hygiene
Chapter 5: Discussion and Policy Prescriptions

About the author

Smruti Bulsari is a Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex, where she works on National Institute of Health and Care Applied Research Collaboration (NIHR - ARC), and Alzheimer's Society-funded research on dementia. She has worked on research projects funded by ESRC, British Academy, ICSSR and Government of Gujarat. She has a PhD in Economics and has experience working with large datasets.
Kiran Pandya is Vice Chancellor of Sarvajanik University. He was also appointed as the Member, National Statistical Commission (NSC), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). He was a Professor and Head in the Department of Human Resource Development, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat (Gujarat, India). He obtained the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics by the University of Sussex (UK), for which, he was awarded the Academic Staff Scholarship by the Commonwealth Commission in the UK.
Anil Gumber is a Visiting Professor in health economics and medical statistics at the Research Centre for Healthcare & Communities, Coventry University (UK). He also holds an Emeritus Senior Fellow position at the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University. He holds a PhD in Economics and was a postdoctoral research scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

Product details

• Authors: Smruti (Uni of Essex Bulsari, Bulsari Smruti, Anil Gumber, Pandya Kiran
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032754338
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275433-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, India, Social issues & processes, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Social and ethical issues, Development Studies, Birth control, contraception, family planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies