Financing Healthcare for All in India: Towards a Common Goal

Oommen C. Kurian ()

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Healthcare; budget; India; Rural Development; Hospitals; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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