The effectiveness of public spending remains a relatively elusive empirical issue. This preliminary analysis is an attempt, using benefit incidence methodology, to define the effectiveness of spending at the subnational government level in India's health sector. The results reveal that the...

The health insurers administer retrospectively package rates for various inpatient procedures as a provider payment mechanism to empanelled hospitals in Indian healthcare market. This study analyzed the impact of private health insurance on healthcare utilization in terms of both lengths of...

With India’s low life expectancy largely reflecting deaths from preventable diseases, the most significant gains in health would come from population-wide preventive measures. Access to public health care services varies substantially, resulting in many people turning to private-sector...

In this paper, we seek to examine the factors that influence the choice of healthcare providers in the rural areas of a highly developed state of India, Punjab. In particular, we examined the choice between government and private providers, as well as between medical professionals and informal...

Increase in health expenditure has a huge impact on the socioeconomic conditions in any country. Though, there is no consensus as to whether the rising health expenditure is beneficial or detrimental to economic growth. The present study chose India as a case study to empirically examine a...

The presence of private providers in the Indian healthcare remains one of the most debated issues. This paper attempts to contribute to this debate from the angle of the ultimate goal of healthcare provision – a healthy population. We explore whether private sector presence has improved the...

With a low Tax to GDP ratio of only 17%, despite allocating 10% of its revenues to healthcare, India will be unable to finance all of her healthcare needs from public expenditures. Therefore, the only way to ensure that all of her citizens get good healthcare, is for the Indian government to...

We assess India’s healthcare capacity by comparing several countrywide and state-level metrics: per capita spending on healthcare, healthcare spending priority in budgets, hospital bed capacity, and capacity in terms of doctors, nurses, and total healthcare personnel. We find that, overall,...