HEALTH SPENDING IN INDIAImpact, T H ECurrent, O FStructures, A I DEffectiveness, A I D
India has a high level of out-of-pocket (OOP) health care spending, and lacks well developed health insurance markets. As a result, official measures of poverty and inequality that treat medical spending symmetrically with consumption goods can be misleading. We argue that OOP medical costs ...
The India Union Health Ministry recently released the National Health Account (NHA) estimates for India 2021-22. One data point that caught my attention was the imbalance in healthcare spending. India’s healthcare spending is weighted heavily toward curative services, which creates long-term ineffi...
Though health care is a basic input in the production of health and governed by the economic well-being of households, no study has examined the extent of poor and non-poor differentials in household health spending in India. The aim of this article is to examine the poor and non-poor ...
In this context, the present study investigated the association between public health spending and infant and child mortality in India. In the study, data from the first, second, and third National Family Health Survey were used to create a birth cohort for the years 1980 to 2006 that ...
Deep cuts in health spending by the Indian government will lead to continued inadequate health services and delays in achieving universal access to healthcare, argue experts in The BMJ this week.
National Healthcare Spending in the U.S. Was Nearly $5 Trillion (with a “T”) in 2023 – New Data from CMS By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 18 December 2024 inAffordable Care Act,Business and health,Coronavirus,COVID-19,Diabetes,Employers,GLP-1s,Health benefits,Health care industry,Health Consume...
Public spendingfixed effectIndiachildhoodThe present study attempts to investigate the association between public spending on health and childhood mortality in India; using time-series cross-sectional data from various government sources for the period 1985-2009. Infant and child (age 1 to 4 years) ...
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has proposed new initiatives to reduce the amount that Indians contribute personally to healthcare, from the current level of 71% to 50% of total health spending.The document suggests that the government would fund and deliver services such as ambulance transport, obstetric and newborn care, immun...