The primary level caters to the basic needs of the patient and then the patient condition is beyond the capacity of the primary healthcare infrastructure, the patient is referred to the further levels of management. India spends Rupees 103,000 crore i.e. 5.2% of GDP on healthcare. This is...
India presently spends a little over 1% of its GDP on public healthcare, one of the lowest in the world. The announcement came in the annual budget, aimed at boosting growth ahead of a general election next year. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also allocated billions of dollars for health, ...
With a view to improve access and quality of health services, government should enhance public spending on health sector in the vicinity of 3 per cent of GDP.B. S. Ghuman∗Akshat Mehta∗∗Ghuman, B.S. and Mehta, A. (2009). Healthcare services in India: Problems and prospects. ...
National health accounts reveal that the government sector (central, state and local) together account for around 20% of the total health expenditures (representing around 1% of GDP – among the lowest in the world), external aid via voluntary sector for 2% and 78% take the form of out-of...
In 2023 India surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country, and maintained its position as the world’s fifth largest economy in terms of GDP, trailing the US, China, Germany and Japan. India has become one of the fastest‑growing major economies in the world. Its GDP gr...
3.66% of GDPvs3.4% of GDP Scroll down for more details How does Indonesia compare to India? Has public health care ? 2.24x more forests ? 51.7%vs23.1% 4 900.00$ higher GDP per capita ? $14 100.00vs$9 200.00 0.75% lower unemployment rate ...
The incoming vice-chair of what is set to become India’s largest media and digital entertainment company looks back on a decades-long career, and what lies ahead for the sector and India. Why the next decade in healthcare is India’s decade ...
As a result, the citizen bears burnt of the remaining 60.6% of the health expenditure [2.3% of GDP, Rs. 2494 per capita] on their own [16]. However, purchase ability has increased for many; parallelly the choice of institute has also shifted towards private facilities, in search of ...
India has too few doctors, not enough hospital beds, and a low share of state spending on healthcare relative to GDP. While life expectancy has risen to 68.3 years from 37 in 1951, the country stillranks 125thamong all nations on this parameter. Indian women are three...
The respondents also provided detailed information on the illness, care-seeking events, healthcare expenditure, the source, and the amount for healthcare payment strategies for each household member within the last six months of the survey. The unit of analysis of this study was “healthcare-...