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Improving Health Outcomes and Health Care in India

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  • Isabelle Joumard

    (OECD)

  • Ankit Kumar

    (OECD)

Abstract

With India’s low life expectancy largely reflecting deaths from preventable diseases, the most significant gains in health would come from population-wide preventive measures. Access to public health care services varies substantially, resulting in many people turning to private-sector providers who mainly serve those who can pay. While government has scaled up public health services, more health professionals and public health care spending will be needed to ensure broad and adequate health-care coverage. Priority should be given to high impact primary health care services. For more resources to translate into better services, the management of public health care services needs to improve. The private sector can be drawn upon more extensively, but should also be obliged to meet basic quality standards. Améliorer la santé et l'accès aux soins de tous en Inde La faible espérance de vie en Inde s’expliquant largement par la mortalité liée à des maladies évitables, les gains les plus notables au plan sanitaire seront réalisés grâce à des mesures de prévention généralisées. L’accès aux services de santé publique est très variable et une part importante de la population se tourne vers les prestataires du secteur privé, qui servent essentiellement une population plus aisée. Si les autorités ont renforcé les services de santé publique, il faudra plus de professionnels de santé et plus de dépenses publiques de santé pour assurer une couverture sanitaire adéquate. Il conviendrait de donner la priorité aux services de soins primaires, à fort impact. Il conviendrait également d’améliorer la gestion des services publics de santé pour garantir une meilleure qualité de ces services par rapport aux ressources investies. Le secteur privé pourrait être davantage mis à contribution, mais devrait également être tenu de respecter des normes de qualité minimales.

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  • Isabelle Joumard & Ankit Kumar, 2015. "Improving Health Outcomes and Health Care in India," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1184, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1184-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js7t9ptcr26-en
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    1. Roberts, Tessa & Shrivastava, Ritu & Koschorke, Mirja & Patel, Vikram & Shidhaye, Rahul & Rathod, Sujit D., 2020. "“Is there a medicine for these tensions?” Barriers to treatment-seeking for depressive symptoms in rural India: A qualitative study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 246(C).
    2. Tiken Das & Diganta Das, 2022. "Does the augmentation of monetary and non‐monetary factors prerequisite for the improvement of health outcomes? Evidence from the Indian states," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(2), pages 1131-1156, March.
    3. Isabelle Joumard & Peter Hoeller & Jean-Marc Fournier & Hermes Morgavi, 2017. "Public debt in India: Moving towards a prudent level?," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1400, OECD Publishing.
    4. M.D. Azharuddin Akhtar & Nadeem Ahmad & Indrani Roy Chowdhury, 2020. "Measuring Socio-Economic Inequality in Self-Reported Morbidity in India: Decomposition Analysis," Review of Development and Change, , vol. 25(1), pages 89-111, June.

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    Keywords

    assurance santé privée; assurance santé publique; health; health professionals; Inde; India; public and private health insurance; RSBY; RSBY; santé;
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    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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