Healthcare ExpenditureRural & Urban Health Care SystemGovernmentThe objective of the paper is to analyze accessing the healthcare system for the poor in India and the pattern of healthcare expenditure on health sector in India. The analysis reveals that levels of public spending on healthcare in ...
No abstract is available for this item.doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1667-4Pushpendra SinghVirendra KumarSocial Indicators ResearchThe Rising Burden of Healthcare Expenditure in India:A Poverty Nexus. P.Singh,V.Kumar. Social Indicators Research . 2017...
Thus, many individuals either forego needed care or rely on out-of-pocket payments for care, accounting for almost 62.6% of total health expenditure—one of the highest globally7. Unsurprisingly, healthcare costs are a considerable driver of poverty in India6, of which extreme poverty (i.e.,...
PUBLIC HEALTHCARE EXPENDITURE NEEDS IN NORTH-EASTERN STATES OF INDIA doi:10.25175/jrd/2020/v39/i3/140850Journal of Rural DevelopmentNgangbam, SapanaRoy, Archana K.
Therefore, a public-private mix of funding mechanisms exists in most countries and then governments are able to cut on the public share of healthcare expenditure. Policies designed to shift the burden of healthcare away from the public purse into the private pockets have been so effective that ...
services—which encompass managing chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension—currently receive 15% of expenditure. This underfunding of preventive and ambulatory care undercuts India’s ability to manage long-term health conditions that are becoming increasingly prevalent in the...
Over the past few decades, health expenditure in Nepal has been consistently less thanone-tenth of the nation’s GDP. If it was not for community level work by Female Community Health Volunteers and the effort of dozens of nonprofits medical care would be beyond the reach of most Nepalis. ...
Health insurance (HI) can take care of the poor but in India it is still not a felt need, especially in rural areas. Aims To know the coverage of HI in rural area of Mysore District and also to study the healthcare expenditure pattern in the area. Settings and design Community-based ...
We also do not find any statistically significant effect of RSBY on the level of outpatient out-of-pocket expenditure and the probability of incurring outpatient expenditure. In contrast, the likelihood of incurring any out of pocket spending (inpatient and outpatient) rose by 30% due to RSBY ...
Product (GDP) allocated to the healthcare sector, leading to a lower density of medical practitioners (1.34 doctors per 1,000 population), lesser number of hospital beds (5.3 beds per 10,000 population) and higher Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure (OOPE) (50.60% of health spendings) [...