Magdalena Z. Raban, Rakhi Dandona and Lalit Dandona Bulletin of the World Health Organization Abstract Objective To assess the comparability of out-of-pocket (OOP)payment and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) estimates from different household surveys in...
The recent decision in the Novartis Glivec case continues a long-established tradition of India contesting a Northern agenda on patent laws. This key global role, arising from the exceptional combination of a vibrant domestic pharmaceutical industry with civil society...
Sutapa Agrawal and Shah Ebrahim BMC Public Health 2013 Abstract Background It is postulated that a diet high in legumes may be beneficial in preventing diabetes. However, little empirical evidence on this association exists in developing countries. We aimed to examine...
Narayanan Devadasan et al Health Research Policy and Systems 2013, 11:29 doi:10.1186/1478-4505-11-29 Abstract Background India’s health expenditure is met mostly by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments at the time of illness. To protect poor families, the...
Arindam Nandi Et al PLoS ONE 8(6): e66296. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066296 Abstract The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), which was introduced in 2008 in India, is a social health insurance scheme that aims to improve healthcare access and provide...
