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 …

Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially … neglect of urban public health care. Importance has to be given to Millennium Development Goals that are still unmet. Health …

Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …

National Health Accounts (NHA) is a tried and tested tool for summarizing, describing, and analyzing the financing of … national health systems. The estimates prepared provide clues regarding the essential steps to be taken for better use of … health financing to improve health system performance. A number of countries have started NHA in order to answer the policy …

India’s health policy has focused on primary health centers and hospitals. The numbers of hospital beds, doctors, and … nurses per 1000 persons have often been treated less as inputs and more as measures of success of the health policy. Health … with the same budgetary resources by addressing the lack of public goods in health. There is a need to focus the limited …

public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global health technology assessment facility …:[http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426240_file_priority_setting_global_health_FINAL.pdf]. …

This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation …. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby … causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne …

sufficient for a baby beyond the age of three or four months, it may discourage health-care providers to recommend prolonged …