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Financing Healthcare for All in India: Towards a Common Goal

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  • Oommen C. Kurian

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India continues to have among the lowest public health budgets in the world at just over 1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it gets reflected in the performance of the public healthcare delivery system – be it in the form of user charges acting as a major access barrier, decaying infrastructure, severe staff shortages or unavailability of medicines. The public and the private sector remain notoriously unaccountable. Despite the country’s newfound middle-income status, the ineffectiveness of the Indian health system and characteristically high health-related out-of-pocket hospital payments have pushed around 60 million people below poverty line; the number is equivalent to the population of the United Kingdom.

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  • Oommen C. Kurian, 2015. "Financing Healthcare for All in India: Towards a Common Goal," Working Papers id:6932, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Suranjan Majumder & Subham Roy & Arghadeep Bose & Indrajit Roy Chowdhury, 2023. "Understanding regional disparities in healthcare quality and accessibility in West Bengal, India: A multivariate analysis," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(5), pages 1086-1113, June.
    2. Behera, Deepak Kumar & Dash, Umakant, 2019. "Prioritization of government expenditure on health in India: A fiscal space perspective," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
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    4. Ranjit Kumar Dehury & Parthsarathi Dehury & Nischala Sripathi & GVRK Acharyulu & Manas Ranjan Behera & Suryanarayana Neeragatti, 2023. "Health Sector Development in India: An Account from Bhore Committee 1946 to National Health Policy 2017," Journal of Development Policy and Practice, , vol. 8(2), pages 209-242, July.
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    6. Deepak Kumar BEHERA & Umakant DASH, 2017. "Impact of GDP and tax revenue on health care financing: An empirical investigation from Indian states," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 0(2(611), S), pages 249-262, Summer.

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