Maheshnayaka, S. N. and Uma, H. R. (2018) Financial impact of cancer on rural households-A Case study in Mandya District. Asian Journal of Development Matters, 12 (1). pp. 217-226. ISSN 0976-4674
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Cancer is one of the global health problems. Globally there are around 2, 70, 000 new cases annually and 1, 45, 000 deaths of which two-thirds occur in developing countries. Nearly 70% of Indian population lives in rural India. Lung cancer rates are lower in rural areas with rates approximately 65% of those in urban areas. Breast and prostate cancer incidence rates are higher in village areas comparing to urban areas by approximately 8% and 11% respectively. Colorectal cancer incidence rates in village areas are higher in females, by 6%, but not males. Thus, though the incidence of cancer in rural India is nearly half of that of urban India, the mortality rates are double. However, nearly 95% of cancer care facilities are in urban India. Cancer has severe adverse economic consequences at the individual, sectoral as well as at the national level. If a person is suffering from cancer it means gradually he will lose the ability to work, he lose the income, it becomes difficult to manage the financial issues and it also affects his personal life. The burden of the care of the cancer patient, whether at home or at hospitals falls mainly on the family. More often, there is a loss of family income on the part of a family member due to his or her own illness or to having to limit working hours because of the illness of another family member. The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of cancer on income and expenditure of the rural households. The present study is based on both primary and secondary data. The primary data have been collected from 25 cancer patients in Mandya district with appropriate questionnaire and simple percentage was used to analyse the data. From the case study we get observed that Cancer is more associated with the poverty because our study shows that out of 25 respondents 52% of the cancer patients family income is within 10, 000. This point indicates the economic status of the cancer patients and also indicates the cancer and poverty relations. Majority of the cancer patients are suffering from financial crunch due to loan burden of the cancer treatment. 52% of the cancer patients are spent more than one lakh for cancer treatment. Not only that many rural people have lost their property due to the excess burden of interest on loan. Cancer has a severe impact on individuals and households not only does it lead to disability and health, its treatment costs and associated loss of income can quickly undermine family finances.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | A Arts and Humanities > Economics |
| Divisions: | PG Centre Mandya > Economics |
| Depositing User: | Manjula P Library Assistant |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2019 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jul 2019 08:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/6177 |
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