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except manual labour. This results in an entire generation of youth to be stuck in the vicious cycle of poverty and
exploitation. This paper studies the condition of Maharashtra according to the Census of India in terms of working
children and migrant child workers. Maharashtra being the financial capita of the country India, attracts large
number of migrants for employment. Children are no exception to this trend and as a result provides us with a
unique phenomenon where children migrate to second tier industrial cities solely for the purpose of employment.
This results in children working in hazardous and prohibited economic sectors accelerated by the absence of labour
unions working for their rights or parental support. This paper suggests steps to curb their exploitation and risk by
the initiation of halfway-homes near work-cites and evaluates previously failed initiatives with similar frameworks.

1546 Distressed Financing of Major Morbidity in India.

Srikanth Reddy Umenthala

International Institute for Population Science, Mumbai, India

Categories

8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing

Abstract

The asymmetric demographic transition among Indian states has contributed to the co-existence of communicable
as well as non-communicable diseases. Poor and inadequate supply of public health services, along with the broad
base of younger age population particularly in the high fertility states have contributed to the higher prevalence of
diseases while low or stalled fertility states have non communicable disease. Health payments that are done through
borrowings or sale of assets to pay for health expenditure are termed as distressed financing. The study uses Indian
Human development survey (IHDS) which conducted during 2004-05 and 2011-12. We analyzed changes in
household condition from round 1 to round 2 in major morbidity and health care spending. We have categorized
households into two-categories, households facing distress financing in both rounds and facing in one of the
rounds. This analysis finds a critical evidence of distressed financing and ways to cope this financing. Along with
change in economic status when no distress financing. Results show that in both rounds the magnitude of spending
on food, education decreases with the as coping strategy for distress financing. There is long and short term effect
on economic outcomes due to diseases in both rounds.

784 The Impact of Father’s International Labour Migration on the Children Left
Behind Family: An Analysis of Sri Lanka

Neranjala SUMATHIPALA

Department of Demography, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka