public healtheconomicsquarantineWe assess India's healthcare capacity by comparing several countrywide and state-level metrics: per capita spending on healthcare, healthcare spending prioritydoi:10.2139/ssrn.3570651Rajagopalan, ShrutiChoutagunta, Abishek...
The main drivers are GDP per capita, consumer spending per capita, and healthcare spending. Additional notes:The data is modeled using current exchange rates. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war are considered at a country-specific level. The market is updated ...
This editorial is based on “SDG goals at risk in nations such as India due to declining health spending: Data” which was published in The Hindu on 13/11/2024. The article brings into focus the sharp decline in government health spending per capita in low and lower-middle-income countries...
While the health spending accounts 13% of total consumption expenditure for elderly households, it was 7% among households with elderly and non-elderly members, and 5% among non-elderly households. Controlling for socio-economic and demographic correlates, the per-capita household health spending among...
Inequality in healthcare infrastructure and resources (and hence access) is expected to exist both between states and within states (i.e., across districts in a state) because of the variation in healthcare spending (per capita) across Indian states. Data from the Health & Family Welfare ...
The analysis demonstrated that high per capita government health spending was significantly associated with low inequity in utilization of inpatient care. Conclusion: The study concludes that it would be necessary to address the prevailing inequities in healthcare by substantially scaling up the public ...
Lack of Adequate Mental Healthcare: India has one of the lowest numbers of mental health care professionals per capita. Government's spending on mental health is also very low. This has resulted in poor mental health outcomes and inadequate care for people suffering from mental il...
On the other hand, the health spending in the country is largely met by out-of-pocket payment and household is the main source of financing. Though studies estimated the cost, OOP and catastrophic health spending of cancer care, there is paucity of studies on estimation of CHE and distress ...
dollars has an opportunity cost that could have financed basic yearly healthcare for 557,500 people based on Nepal’s 2014 annual per capita healthcare spending of USD 40.00 [35], and this is about half the population of Nepal’s largest metropolitan area, Kathmandu. Put another way, Nepal ...
Health and wealth are the two most important components of well-being. Rankings of wellbeing based on income will differ from more comprehensive rankings, depending on the way that income and health are related. India's per capita income was $2,045 in purchasing power parity dollars, less ...