Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned … the point of view of health policy- making as little is known about it. The aim of this study was to describe policies and …

The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic farming practices leads to better health. As … a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of organic and conventional rice … provinces, we calculate catastrophic health expenditures as out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures exceeding a specified …

different income categories. The scheme of devolution suggested by us has been worked upon and laid out in a user friendly …

relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital of children and the distribution of resources … income and wealth from both coresident and non co-resident family members. …

urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study indicates that besides individual health financing policies of the …

sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to … attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health … expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is …