HEALTH, POVERTY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Abstract 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. Main objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship between health, poverty and economic development on rural masses and to understand the cause of unequal health outcomes. The study also strives to analyse allocation of resources for health care system as well as people's financing pattern on health care which affect to their livelihood situation. Health related expenditure increases debt position of the poor household and they are again in poverty trap