This paper discusses health vulnerabilities of children in general followed by an analysis of data regarding health scenario of children below five years of age from

THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.

Recent studies examining British attitudes and ideologies which structured colonial policies towards 'outcaste'2 and 'deviant' groups in indigenous society, have suggested that the groups who were marginalised included those whose activities were conceived of as 'threatening' to new normative def

There is a growing recognition that gynaecological morbidity is an important health problem among poor women in India.