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Financing Universal Health Care In India
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Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309477891 Total Pages :399 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Crossing the Global Quality Chasm by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Crossing the Global Quality Chasm written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitment to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. However, enormous gaps remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, and progress has been both incomplete and unevenly distributed. In order to meet this goal, a deliberate and comprehensive effort is needed to improve the quality of health care services globally. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide focuses on one particular shortfall in health care affecting global populations: defects in the quality of care. This study reviews the available evidence on the quality of care worldwide and makes recommendations to improve health care quality globally while expanding access to preventive and therapeutic services, with a focus in low-resource areas. Crossing the Global Quality Chasm emphasizes the organization and delivery of safe and effective care at the patient/provider interface. This study explores issues of access to services and commodities, effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and equity. Focusing on front line service delivery that can directly impact health outcomes for individuals and populations, this book will be an essential guide for key stakeholders, governments, donors, health systems, and others involved in health care.
Book Synopsis Government-Sponsored Health Insurance in India by : Gerard La Forgia
Download or read book Government-Sponsored Health Insurance in India written by Gerard La Forgia and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive review of all major government-supported health insurance schemes in India and their potential for contributing to the achievement of universal coverage in India are discussed.
Book Synopsis Financing Universal Health Care in India by : Nachiket Mor
Download or read book Financing Universal Health Care in India written by Nachiket Mor and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 emerge as a single payer and design a high quality, primary care centric health care system which is free for all citizens at the point of service, whether provided by the public or the private sector. Such a health system would incorporate features such as gatekeeping at the primary care level so that all citizens are able to visit hospitals only if they have been referred to them by their primary care providers and would require participating healthcare networks to bear risk directly instead of transferring them to insurance companies. The government would use its general revenue resources to pay the premium for those that are poor and the non-poor would be required to mandatorily enrol themselves into this health system by paying the necessary premium upfront to the government.
Book Synopsis Financing Healthcare for All in India by : Kurian, Oommen, C
Download or read book Financing Healthcare for All in India written by Kurian, Oommen, C and published by Oxfam India. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40 pages AuthorsKurian, Oommen C.Publication date29 May 2015PublisherOxfam IndiaSeriesOxfam Working PapersTypeWorking paper This paper explores available evidence, contextualises and maps the debate in India around financing healthcare for all. While the focus is on healthcare in response to current policy debates, Oxfam India recognises the crucial importance of adopting a holistic approach to health, addressing factors such as nutrition and sanitation, and broader social determinants of health.
Book Synopsis The road to universal health coverage by : Samir Saran
Download or read book The road to universal health coverage written by Samir Saran and published by Observer Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Universalising Healthcare in India by : Imrana Qadeer
Download or read book Universalising Healthcare in India written by Imrana Qadeer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of universal health coverage in India. It starts by setting the historical context and politics of the debates around universal health coverage (UHC) in India and proceeds to analyze the present crisis of public health in the country. The book examines the present policies on the pharmaceutical industry, missing links in universalizing health, and the importance of social determinants of health. It is divided into five sections, and some of the topics covered include the difference between comprehensive primary health care and universal health care, public health and medical care, health service, and health system. The chapters are contributed by scholars and practitioners based on historical, interdisciplinary, empirical, and policy research. The book is insightful to academics, public health administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and students interested in health care and organization, looking to transform theory into policy and practice.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309374065 Total Pages :141 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (93 download)
Book Synopsis Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal health coverage (UHC) has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a key element in reducing social inequality and a critical component of sustainable development and poverty reduction. In most of the world UHC is sought through a combination of public and private-sector health care systems. In most low- and middle-income countries health systems are evolving to increasingly rely on the private sector because the public sector lacks the infrastructure and staff to meet all health care needs. With growing individual assets available for private-sector expenditure, patients often seek better access to technology, staff, and medicines. However, in low-income countries nearly 50 percent of health care financing is out-of-pocket. With the expected increase in the overall fraction of care provided through the private sector, these expenditures can be financially catastrophic for individuals in the informal workforce. In the global workforce of approximately 3 billion people, only 10 to 15 percent are estimated to have some type of access to occupational health services. The informal workforce is growing worldwide, and the degree to which its occupational health needs are satisfied depends on the capabilities of the general health care system. In July 2014, the Institute of Medicine held a workshop on approaches to universal health coverage and occupational health and safety for informal sector workers in developing countries. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from this workshop. Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries identifies best practices and lessons learned for the informal workforce in developing countries in the financing of health care with respect to health care delivery models that are especially suitable to meeting a population's needs for a variety of occupational health issues, including the prevention of or mitigation of hazardous risks and the costs of providing medical and rehabilitation services and other benefits to various types of workers within this population. These experiences and lessons learned may be useful for stakeholders in moving the discussions, policies, and mechanisms forward to increase equitable access to quality health services without financial hardship for the informal workforce.
Download or read book Going Universal written by Daniel Cotlear and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners. Each of the UHC programs analyzed in this book is seeking to overcome the legacy of inequality by tackling both a “financing gap†? and a “provision gap†?: the financing gap (or lower per capita spending on the poor) by spending additional resources in a pro-poor way; the provision gap (or underperformance of service delivery for the poor) by expanding supply and changing incentives in a variety of ways. The prevailing view seems to indicate that UHC require not just more money, but also a focus on changing the rules of the game for spending health system resources. The book does not attempt to identify best practices, but rather aims to help policy makers understand the options they face, and help develop a new operational research agenda. The main chapters are focused on providing a granular understanding of policy design, while the appendixes offer a systematic review of the literature attempting to evaluate UHC program impact on access to services, on financial protection, and on health outcomes.
Book Synopsis India’s Economy and Society by : Sunil Mani
Download or read book India’s Economy and Society written by Sunil Mani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of fifteen contributions that undertake a detailed analysis of seven broad dimensions of India’s economy and society. All the contributions approach the problems in their respective areas empirically, while being theoretically informed. The book begins with a section containing detailed and empirically supported chapters on the recent crisis in India’s agricultural sector and the reforms in the agricultural markets. Another section is dedicated to the issue of infrastructure financing, and new ways of financing large infrastructural projects are critically examined. Other sections are related to innovations and technology impacts on industry; international trade; health and education; labor and employment; and the very important issue of gender. The selected discussion topics are both of contemporary importance and expected to remain so for some time. Most of the chapters introduce readers to data in addition to methods of analyzing this data, to arrive at policy-oriented conclusions. The rich collection carries learnings for researchers working on a wide range of topics related to development studies, as well as for policymakers and corporate watchers.
Book Synopsis What's In, What's Out by : Amanda Glassman
Download or read book What's In, What's Out written by Amanda Glassman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities of limited health care budgets face tough decisions like these regularly. And for many individuals, their personal health care choices are equally stark: paying for medical treatment could push them into poverty. Many low- and middle-income countries now aspire to universal health coverage, where governments ensure that all people have access to the quality health services they need without risk of impoverishment. But for universal health coverage to become reality, the health services offered must be consistent with the funds available—and this implies tough everyday choices for policymakers that could be the difference between life and death for those affected by any given condition or disease. The situation is particularly acute in low- and middle income countries where public spending on health is on the rise but still extremely low, and where demand for expanded services is growing rapidly. What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage argues that the creation of an explicit health benefits plan—a defined list of services that are and are not available—is an essential element in creating a sustainable system of universal health coverage. With contributions from leading health economists and policy experts, the book considers the many dimensions of governance, institutions, methods, political economy, and ethics that are needed to decide what’s in and what’s out in a way that is fair, evidence-based, and sustainable over time.
Book Synopsis Research for Universal Health Coverage by : Christopher Dye
Download or read book Research for Universal Health Coverage written by Christopher Dye and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2013 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Health Report: research for universal health coverage" focuses on the importance of research in advancing progress towards universal health coverage. In addition, it identifies the benefits of increased investment in health research by low- and middle-income countries using case studies from around the world, and proposes ways to further strengthen this type of research.
Book Synopsis The Unmet Objective of Health Financing in India. Affordable Health Care for All by : Deepak Singh
Download or read book The Unmet Objective of Health Financing in India. Affordable Health Care for All written by Deepak Singh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: 7, , course: PUBLIC HEALTH, language: English, abstract: In India, healthcare costs are increasing and India’s health financing system is exacerbating economic burden on household because of health expenditure and influence treatment-seeking behaviors. As a result, health inequity and unequal access, come up as the main concern for the Indian Health care system. This study aims to report the bottlenecks in health financing functions resulting in financial barrios in health care access. Literature review and desk study were done by reviewing, analyzing the data from national health account and National Family Health Survey conducted during 2012-13 to 2015-16 and analysis of studies done on health system and Health financing functions in India were included. The OASIS framework used to guide the study.
Book Synopsis Health Systems Financing by : World Health Organization
Download or read book Health Systems Financing written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This World Health Report was produced under the overall direction of Carissa Etienne ... and Anarfi Asamoa Baah ... The principal writers were David B. Evans ... [et al] -- t.p. verso.
Book Synopsis Improving Financial Protection by Prepayment and Risk Pooling Reform in India - A Move Towards Universal Health Coverage by : Ankur Chauhan
Download or read book Improving Financial Protection by Prepayment and Risk Pooling Reform in India - A Move Towards Universal Health Coverage written by Ankur Chauhan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal health coverage is "the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer" an assertion made by WHO Director General Margaret Chan shows the mounting worldwide attention given to coverage - particularly in less affluent countries - as a way to reduce financial impoverishment caused by health spending, improve financial protection and increase access to key health services. Despite a lot of debate and discussions there is little consensus about how reforms should be structured in low-income and lower-middle income countries aiming towards universal health coverage. These countries including India can aspire to provide Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to their populations provided health financing systems are properly structured and managed. One of the few common key features of the trajectory towards universal health coverage is an increase in the share of health spending that is pooled rather than paid out-of-pocket by individuals. In Indian context this is specifically very true as India is currently suffering from weak and fragmented health financing system with extremely low public spending on health and catastrophic private out-of-pocket expenditures. At 1.2% of the GDP, India's public spending on health as a proportion of GDP is bottommost in the world. The present report discusses sources of inefficiency and inequity in Indian health financing mechanisms from economics perspective. And to address them proposes a reform based on Tax based prepayment and centralised risk pooling to improve financial protection. Despite recent economic reforms in India, this low level of public health spending only signifies that health has never been assigned a due priority by Indian governments in its agenda. A direct consequence of this low public spending on health is the exceptionally high burden of private out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP), which amounts to 71% of the total health expenditure. Paid by individual households at the time of illness, it is one of the highest proportions of OOP in the world creating significant financial barriers in accessing healthcare. Financial protection against medical expenditures is far from universal. Only 10% of!households in India have at least one member covered by medical insurance as per National Family Health Survey 2005-06. India's medical insurance sector is exceptionally weak and fragmented with plethora of discrete insurance schemes catering to different sections of society. Henceforth a reformed risk pooling mechanism that is sufficiently backed up by a reliable prepayment system is the need of the hour to reduce out-of-pocket expenditures and establish financial protection for the entire population. The present paper discusses sources of inefficiency and!inequity in!Indian health financing mechanisms from economics perspective. And to address them proposes a reform based on Tax based prepayment and centralised risk pooling tom improve financial protection.
Book Synopsis WORLD HEALH REPORT (The) : Health Systems Financing: the path to universal Coverage (Chinese) by :
Download or read book WORLD HEALH REPORT (The) : Health Systems Financing: the path to universal Coverage (Chinese) written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Implementing Health Financing Reform by : Joseph Kutzin
Download or read book Implementing Health Financing Reform written by Joseph Kutzin and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2010 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the experience with the financing reforms implemented by the countries of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, the Cauxasus and Central Asia.
Book Synopsis Tracking Universal Health Coverage by : World Health Organization
Download or read book Tracking Universal Health Coverage written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the first of its kind to measure health service coverage and financial protection to assess countries' progress towards universal health coverage. It shows that at least 400 million people do not have access to one or more essential health services and 6% of people in low- and middle-income countries are tipped into or pushed further into extreme poverty because of health spending. Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people receive the quality essential health services they need without being exposed to financial hardship. A significant number of countries at all levels of development are embracing the goal of UHC as the right thing to do for their citizens. It is a powerful social equalizer and contributes to social cohesion and stability. Every country has the potential to improve the performance of its health system in the main dimensions of UHC: coverage of quality services and financial protection for all. Priorities strategies and implementation plans for UHC will differ from one country to another. Enhanced and expanded monitoring of health under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should seek to build on that experience sharpening our focus on the key health service and financial protection interventions that underpin UHC. Effective UHC tracking is central to achieving the global goals for poverty alleviation and health improvement set by the World Bank Group and WHO. Without it policymakers and decision-takers cannot say exactly where they are or set a course for where they want to go. They cannot know whether they are focussing their efforts in the right areas or whether their efforts are making a difference. Monitoring is thus fundamental to the achievement of UHC objectives. It will also be vital to the realization of the SDGs. This report is a critical step to show how monitoring progress can be done telling us what the state of coverage of interventions and financial protection is and telling us where to focus most.
