Listed are the main highlights of the Union Budget 2013-14 with regard to the health sector. Also find attached the major announcements of the previous budgets. Budget 2013-14 and Health Sector Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Budget Allocation of Rs.37, 300...
Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study Sanjay Basu, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sutapa Agrawal, David Stuckler, Barry Popkin, Shah Ebrahim Abstract Background Taxing sugar-sweetened...
Understanding and Information Failures: Lessons from a Health Microinsurance Program in India Jean Philippe Platteau & Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros This paper is an attempt to understand the factors underlying the low take up and contract renewal rates frequently...
Abstract Universal healthcare is an aspirational goal for India but while the need for it is generally acknowledged a number of problems stand in the way of realising this goal – lack of adequate allocation of funds from the Centre and the States being the most...
Studies from a number of low-income countries have found that the wealthy often use publicly financed health services at a higher rate than the poor. To examine the situation in India, the use of public and private sector hospital services by economic class was...
