Amartya links gender disparities to women's illness
Sunday, 14 February 2010
FE Report
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said Saturday deprivation of women leads to deep health related problems, including high mortality of mother and child, and laid emphasis on removal of gender disparities as a deterrent.
"Malnourished mother, underweight babies and teenagers, higher cases of cardiovascular disease are all linked with the deprivation of women," he said.
The Nobel Prize winning economist said this while addressing the press after a daylong meeting on 'Indo-Bangla Dialogue on Heath and Education: learning from neighbours' here Saturday.
The two-day dialogue, which will end on Sunday, has been organised prior to holding a meeting of heath experts under the banner "Kolkata group" in India on February 15 and 16.
Among others Professor Rehman Sobhan and Professor Raunak Jahan were present in the meeting, which was jointly organised by BRAC, Centre for Policy Dialogue and the Pratichi Trust.
Amartya Sen said South Asian countries have many commonalities in health and education related problems and peruse multi-dimensional ways to solve these deep problems for ensuring a future healthy generation.
He said a nation should advance in different areas with the involvement of the government, non-government institutions and organisations adding that the government should focus on how to expand its health service by raising budgetary allocation and stopping misuse of funds.
"There is no set formula to ensure improvement of the health services in a country," said Sen, the Nobel Prize winner in 1998 for his work on welfare economics.
Amartya Sen laid importance on economic progress to increase the people's ability to spend on healthcare and said many new approaches like school meal, involvement of labour union and incorporation of medical researches can be helpful to improve the health situation.
He said health and education must get importance in the state development programmes to ensure quality of life and improve health of the population.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said Saturday deprivation of women leads to deep health related problems, including high mortality of mother and child, and laid emphasis on removal of gender disparities as a deterrent.
"Malnourished mother, underweight babies and teenagers, higher cases of cardiovascular disease are all linked with the deprivation of women," he said.
The Nobel Prize winning economist said this while addressing the press after a daylong meeting on 'Indo-Bangla Dialogue on Heath and Education: learning from neighbours' here Saturday.
The two-day dialogue, which will end on Sunday, has been organised prior to holding a meeting of heath experts under the banner "Kolkata group" in India on February 15 and 16.
Among others Professor Rehman Sobhan and Professor Raunak Jahan were present in the meeting, which was jointly organised by BRAC, Centre for Policy Dialogue and the Pratichi Trust.
Amartya Sen said South Asian countries have many commonalities in health and education related problems and peruse multi-dimensional ways to solve these deep problems for ensuring a future healthy generation.
He said a nation should advance in different areas with the involvement of the government, non-government institutions and organisations adding that the government should focus on how to expand its health service by raising budgetary allocation and stopping misuse of funds.
"There is no set formula to ensure improvement of the health services in a country," said Sen, the Nobel Prize winner in 1998 for his work on welfare economics.
Amartya Sen laid importance on economic progress to increase the people's ability to spend on healthcare and said many new approaches like school meal, involvement of labour union and incorporation of medical researches can be helpful to improve the health situation.
He said health and education must get importance in the state development programmes to ensure quality of life and improve health of the population.