Financing for Health Coverage in India: Issues and Concerns

Indrani Gupta

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Abstract: The paper explores the trends, composition, and incidence of out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) in India, which has been the predominant means of financing its health care needs. Unit-level data from the National Sample Survey on Household Consumer Expenditure for the years 1993–94, 2004–05, and 2011–12 are used.

Keywords: Household; Out-of-Pocket; Health; National Sample Survey; consumer; financing; OOPHE; India; expenditure; income; per capita consumption; health care; expenses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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