In a major boost to Make in India initiative in the healthcare sector, the Prime Minister on October 29, 2024, inaugurated five projects under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for medical devices and
Health Insurance SchemesIndian Government Health Insurance SchemesIn today's scenario accelerating cost of health significantly impact the health of people and the populace creat-ing a monetary burden on poor households. One of the key concerns while tackling healthcare disparities is out-of-pocket ...
It is troubling that even in southern Indian states, the poorest of the poor do not seem to be getting the benefit of existing schemes. The lack of benefit incidence may be in part due to foregone care/non-use of facilities for delivery [46, 47]. Many studies show that institutional del...
AB-NHPM or the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Swasthya Suraksha Mission (PMRSSM) will enter the states in alliance with the state health schemes. In states other than the special category states the state government will pay 40% of the premium amount. For special category states the state share is...
Through the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), a policy that offers conditional cash transfers, the Indian government has recently placed a greater emphasis on delivery of ANC services [6]. For pregnant women, to be eligible under the programme, they must ...
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2023). It is co-financed by the central government and state governments on a 60:40 ratio. Because many states operate their own public health insurance schemes, state governments were given flexibility to choose their approach to implementation (either directly via an assurance/trust model or ...
the Government of India and the state government have launched a number of financial protection schemes to reduce OOPE and CHS on maternal care. The Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) are two such centrally funded schemes under the National Health Mission ...
Previously studies have looked into the cost of maternity and analyzed the impact of conditional cash transfer schemes such as JSY on the economic burden of maternity [25,26,29,30]. Studies have also looked into distress financing of institutional deliveries and maternity care. Also, studies do ...
H5N1 or SARS spread rapidly. Hong Kong has had a “socialist” health care system providing good service at minimal cost to the people (MacPherson2008, p. 45). In 2006, the Hong Kong SAR Government introduced private health insurance schemes for those who could afford them (MacPherson2008, ...