India Public Finance and Policy Report: Health Matters (Paperback-2019)

About the Book

Health crises plague most economies irrespective of their average per capita income levels, and this is largely due to chronic and repeated illnesses. Contextualizing this paradigm in India, India public Finance and policy report: health matters is an attempt to discuss some of the most crucial issues faced by Indian health sectors and to examine alternatives for policy make Rs to provide affordable, reliable, and effective healthcare facilities to the people. This report compares three government-run social health Insurance schemes—the Swasthya Sathi Scheme, the aarogyasri community Insurance Scheme, and a community-based health Insurance scheme—to examine their effectiveness in reducing households’ vulnerability to health shocks. Additionally, it brings to light the manipulation of health package deals by private hospitals to increase the amount patients spend on them. The report also estimates the inefficiencies across states and districts of India with regard to healthcare personnel and infrastructure. Moreover, the editors have put together a series of interviews with different stakeholders associated with the healthcare system, such as doctors, nurses, patients, and medical representatives, who discuss the problems that perturb this sector. Written in a lucid and Non-Technical language, This is a deeply researched theoretical and empirical commentary about healthcare and public policies in India.

About the Author
Jyotsna Jalan is co-director, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance, Kolkata, and professor, economics, the Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta. Sugata Marjit is distinguished professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industries, Government of India. Sattwik Santra is assistant professor, economics, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance, and Policy, the Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta. Contributors: Arjun S. Bedi Arpita Chakraborty Sisir Debnath Tarun Jain Anagaw Derseh Mebratie Pradeep Panda van de Poel Wameq Raza Frans Rutten Zemzem Shigute Robert Sparrow Revathy Suryanarayana Getnet Alemu Zewdu Koushik Kumar Hati Kalyan Khan Biswajit Mandal Sandip Sarkar.