Out of Pocket Expenditure for Hospitalization among Below Poverty Line Households in District Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2013 Anadi Gupt et al, PLOS One Abstract Introduction Health insurance schemes, like Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), should provide...
A ‘Twisted’ Health Scheme Editorial- Economic and Political Weekly Vol – XLVII No. 38, September 22, 2012 State health insurance schemes are being abused to profi t private care providers. The “uterus removal scams” in Chhattisgarh and Bihar that...
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...
1.The Poverty Trap Jean Drèze, Hindustan Times In the good old days, the poverty line was a relatively simple concept. By and large, it was just a statistical benchmark for making ‘poverty comparisons’ — for instance, to track poverty over time, or to compare poverty...
