Many patients approaching tertiary care hospitals are not able to afford complete cost of treatment owing to poverty …. The situation was no different at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India. Thus … Financing (HCF) for Below Poverty Line (BPL) patients, was conceived: Kamadhenu, the sacred cow in Hindu mythology, nourishes …

Despite India's great strides since independence, fertility, mortality, and morbidity remain unacceptably high …. Although poverty and low levels of education are the root causes of poor health outcomes, poor stewardship over the health … system bears some responsibility. Although India's states exhibit a wide variation in health outcomes, all but the best …

poor in India (Mahal et al 2000) and some additional analysis conducted with the same data. Three factors motivate the … choice of approach taken here and in the background paper. First, the size of the population, the diversity within India, and … and professional discussion around the shape of India's future health system. Other studies included private health sector …

Background: India’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services …

, one of the poorest states of India, we investigate factors influencing the risk of hardship financing with the use of a …