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Investments in Health and Impact on Income

Health and earnings are positively correlated; individuals in poor health are significantly less likely to
work than healthy individuals. Researchers in the study “How Important Is Health Inequality for Lifetime
Earnings Inequality? Have documents using an objective measure “frailty index” observable health deficits
an individual has over life-cycle concluding that health inequality over the life cycle may be an important
driver of lifetime earnings and inequality. Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of poor health, while
poverty increases the chances of poor health, poor health, traps communities in poverty. Breaking the
Intergenerational Cycle of Disadvantage: The Three Generation Approach shows how inter-generational
transmission of poor health and poverty. Quantifying the financial burden of households’ out-of-pocket
payments on medicines in India: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of National Sample Survey data,
1994–2014 (Consumption Expenditure Surveys and information on expenses incurred by the population)
shows 29 million households incurred catastrophic OOP (Out Of Packet) health payments ie 6.77% of total
consumption expenditure and together with medicines OOP payments it has pushed 38 million persons
into poverty in the year 2011–2012. Role of public health and access to entitlements are critical to arrest
such slide in poverty.

Together with SELCO Foundation and Department of Health, Government of MP to demonstrate the
potential for (a) options to improve the energy-efficiency of the electrical equipment and lighting and
(b) solar power setup to power the health centres in a remote sub-district of MP.

Given the wealth, income impact of education and health and role that public services play in delivering
better education and health outcomes TRIF’s engagement is built around possibilities of working with
public health and education systems. Transforming Rural India Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2021-22

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