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,...

We have witnessed radical changes in infrastructure of health services and pattern of utilisation of care over the years in all parts of the country. An enquiry into the fact would unveil some of the important alterations like introduction of user fees or more specifically hike in fees structure...

Designing health systems is a complex challenge. It is made all the more complex in a large and diverse country like India because of the extent and magnitude of variations in it. An attempt is made in this note to carefully study the Indian State of Himachal Pradesh as a case study and to...

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...