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Health among top three priorities for Indian voters after jobs and education, survey shows - Oliver Heath, Jyoti Mishra, Louise Tillin & Sandhya Venkateswaran

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In a recent survey conducted by Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in partnership with the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, King’s India Institute and Royal Holloway, University of London, we set out to examine in greater depth how Indian citizens view health.

This five-state survey is the first systematic interrogation of electoral perceptions around health in India. Between March-April 2022, we interviewed 1,500 voters across five Indian states – Bihar, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. These states represent a range of health outcomes and have different degrees of reliance on public vs private healthcare. They are also governed by different political parties.

We find that respondents view health as one of the top three issues for improving the level of development in their local area – on par with education, and behind only job creation. Similar is true at the household level where 20% of voters say that the issue they are most concerned about over the next five years is their own health or the health of a family member.

Furthermore, among older people, health was ranked as the most important issue – those over the age of 56 were more likely to mention health as the most important issue than those under 25 years of age (26% vs 12%). We can be confident therefore that health is an issue that many voters do care about. Furthermore, the vast majority of respondents, 80%, said that it is the government’s responsibility to provide health ca