The aim of this study was to built scientific evidences based on rigorous analyses of large scale population based health survey data in India. It specifically aims to generate evidence and inform policy on prevalence, socio-economic variation and inequality in health care utilisation of chronic diseases among older adults in India.
The data collected in Longitudinal Ageing Study of India (LASI), the National Family and Health survey (NFHSs) and the Natsocial-protection-for-chronic-health-problemsional Sample Survey has been used. A total of six paper has been published in high quality impact factor journal such as PLoS Medcine, WHO Bulletin, BMC Health Services, Pain etc. Findings from the above research papers have been useful in evidence based planning
Research Team
Sanjay K Mohanty
Sanjay K Mohanty is Professor and Head, Department of Population and Development at at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. Prof Mohanty is a trained economist and demographer and with 23 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided several doctoral students in their maiden research work and authored over 150 research paper in peer reviewed journal. Prof Mohanty teaches “Health Economics” and Population and Development ” at IIPS. His research interests include economics of health and health care, economics of ageing, multidimensional poverty and population dynamics. He has extensively used the unit data from large scale population based health surveys in India including the “Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI)”.
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Prof Mohanty was Visiting Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health during 2014-15 and C R Parekh Fellow at Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics between January in 2010. He was awarded the K.B. Pathakaward, 2009 by the Indian Association for Study of Population (IASP) and the P.N. Mari Bhat Award by the Xavier Institute for Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar)for his research work Prof Mohanty worked as part of the PI team and contributed to the study design, conceptualisation, drafting and publishing research paper on chronic diseases and financial protection in India
Sarang Pedagaonkar
Dr Sarang is Assistant Professor at the department of Family and Generations, International Institute for Population Sciences. He has completed MBBS from Government Medical College, Aurangabad and MD in Community Medicine from TNMC and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai. His professional experience includes more than 10 years of teaching and research in public health, epidemiology and demography. His research interests are non-communicable diseases, reproductive and child health, and nutrition. He is co- principal investigator of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), wave 2
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and member of PI team for National Family Health Survey (NFHS) round 6, 2023-2024, and has completed Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), wave 1, 2017-18, National Family Health Survey (NFHS) round 5, 2019-21, and NFHS round 4, 2015-2016. Dr. Sarang worked as part of PI team and contributed to the study design, conceptualization, drafting and publishing research paper on chronic diseases in India.
P. Arokiasamy
P. Arokiasamy is Professor and Head of the department of development studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, and the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI) for the Indian collaborating institution, IIPS. His professional experience includes 27 years of teaching and research in demography, public health and development studies. He has coordinated or conducted major national research projects namely WHO sponsored World Health Survey (WHS) India, 2003-2005, National Family Health Survey (NFHS) round 3, 2005-2007 and, two waves of the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), wave-1 2006-2007 and wave-2 2015-16 (funded by WHO, Geneva).
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He will lead the project team and will be overall responsible for technical and management aspects and implementation and completion of the project as per timeline. He will contribute to the development of the study design, scope, instrument, field implementation, analysis and preparation of reports.
Jürgen Maurer
Swiss team member
Jürgen Maurer holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and currently works as Professor of Health Economics and Management at the Department of Economics and the Institute for Health Economics and Management at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He is also an Adjunct Economist at the RAND Corporation, a senior research fellow at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, and a fellow at the Health, Econometrics, and Data Group of the University of York and the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in the areas of applied microeconomics, health economics, public health and survey research with a special focus on economic and social research on aging. Jürgen also serves as the principal investigator and country team leader of the Swiss component study of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and main applicant of a large-scale research for development (r4d) project on “Inclusive social protection for chronic health problems” supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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His papers have been published in economics, health economics, medical, public health and demography journals such as the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA: Internal Medicine, the Lancet, the American Journal of Public Health, the American Journal of Epidemiology and Demography among others.
Publications
2025
Mohanty, S. K., Khan, J., Maiti, S., Kämpfen, F., Maurer, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2025). Healthcare inequity arising from unequal response to need in the older (45+ years) population of India: Analysis of nationally representative data. Social Science & Medicine, 364, 117535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117535
2023
Mohanty, S. K., Upadhyay, A.K., Maiti, S., Mishra, R. S., Kämpfen, F., Maurer, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2023). Public health insurance coverage in India before and after PM-JAY: repeated cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data. BMJ Global Health, 8(8), e012725–e012725. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012725
Mohanty, S. K., Abhilasha, Mishra, R. S., Upadhyay, A. K., O’Donnell, O., & Maurer, J. (2023). Sociodemographic and geographic inequalities in diagnosis and treatment of older adults’ chronic conditions in India: a nationally representative population-based study. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09318-6
Mohanty, S. K., Ambade, M., Upadhyay, A. K., Mishra, R. S., Pedgaonkar, S. P., Kampfen, F., O’Donnell, O., & Maurer, J. (2022). Prevalence of pain and its treatment among older adults in India: a nationally representative population-based study. Pain, 164(2), 336–348. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002705
2022
Mohanty, S., Upadhyay, A. K., Shekhar, P., Kämpfen, F., O’Donnell, O., & Maurer, J. (2022). Missed opportunities for hypertension screening: a cross-sectional study, India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 100(1), 30–39B. https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.21.287007
Islam, S., Upadhyay, A. K., Mohanty, S. K., Pedgaonkar, S. P., Maurer, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2022). Use of unclean cooking fuels and visual impairment of older adults in India: A nationally representative population-based study. Environment International, 165, 107302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107302
2021
Mohanty, S. K., Pedgaonkar, S. P., Upadhyay, A. K., Kämpfen, F., Shekhar, P., Mishra, R. S., Maurer, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2021). Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in adults aged 45 years and over and their spouses in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study. PLOS Medicine, 18(8), e1003740. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003740 ***Advertised in The Hindu, 1 October, 2021.
Non-Peer reviewed
Mohanty, S. K., Upadhyay, A.K., Maiti, S., Mishra, R. S., Kämpfen, F., Maurer, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2023). Public health insurance coverage in India before and after PM-JAY: repeated cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data [Research Brief]. https://r4d-ncd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/rb.pdf
Mohanty, S. K., Upadhyay, A.K., Shekhar, P., Kämpfen, F., O’Donnell, O.& Maurer, J., (2023). Missed opportunities for hypertension screening: a cross-sectional study, India. Bull World Health Organ. [Resaerch Brief] https://r4d-ncd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/rb_mo_revised.pdf
Mohanty, S. K., Pedgaonkar, S., Upadhyay, A.K., Kämpfen, F., Shekhar, P., Mishra, R. S., Maurer, J., & O’Donnell, O. (2021). Socio-economic variations in awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in adults aged 45+ in India [Resaerch Brief]. https://r4d-ncd.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/socio-economic-variations-in-awareness-treatment-and-control-of-hypertension-in-adults-aged-45-in-india.pdf
PROJECT FUNDED BY
Inclusive social protection for chronic health problems 