Service standards in the provision of health and education in the states in India are low on average and also … is important not only to improve the average levels of provisions of health and education services, but also to reduce … disparities across states, the Twelfth Finance Commission has recommended special grants for health and education to selected …

Purbalingga is the first kabupaten in Indonesia to start implementing its health insurance scheme for the poor, as a … replacement for the JPS-BK scheme (Social Safety Net Program Health Sector). Poor families (Gakin) receive a range of health … in the scope of its health services, because it not only includes poor families in its scheme, but also non-poor families …

, achieve a socioeconomic and health status similar to that of their nonmigrant counterparts living in the same city. Using … to be absolutely poor than nonmigrants. Their health performance and that of their children are also no different from … the health status of nonmigrants. There is only weak, and not robust, evidence that children of migrants have a higher …

In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …

women and girls to HIV infection. The impact of HIV and AIDS reaches far beyond the health sector with severe economic and … women in the HIV households and the role of women as caregivers; (b) Health-seeking behaviour and outof-pocket expenditure …

sharp decline in health suggesting prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV … public policy to have a critical look favouring a balanced development across the three dimensions of HDI - health, education …

Prevalence rate of chronic energy deficiency (CED) is used as a measure of (adult) nutrition and health status for any … health status. Due to limited information base on BMI very few studies in India have analysed the determinants of CED (which … is the current health status) and even far fewer studies estimating the persons vulnerable to it (that is future health …

The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it … based on consumption of necessities. In literature, catastrophic expenditure is defined as that level of OOP health …, catastrophic health expenditure is defined as one which reduces the non-health expenditure to a level where household is unable to …