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Health Economics in India by Himanshu Sekhar Rout,Prasant Kumar Panda Pdf
The present volume, covers different aspects and issues related to health with empirical edivence. It is an initiative to partially address these issues and draw the attention of government functionaries and health planners. The main themes which the volume covers are: health status and development, tribals` health, determinants of health, health care service delivery and health sector financing and reforms.
Inequity in Indian Health Care by Brijesh C. Purohit Pdf
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,. Further, it discusses various measures for defining inequity in each of these aspects, and employs different indices for each dimension of inequity, which include financing, utilization, region, health outcomes, caste and class, and gender. The book covers both theoretical and empirical issues, examining fifteen major Indian States, as well as selected case studies at the district level. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the book provides an overall view of the outcomes attributable to both economic development and policy changes per se. While providing essential data and insights for policymakers and researchers alike, the book also outlines further feasible policy changes that could potentially mitigate the current inequities in Indian healthcare. As such, it offers a valuable resource for upper graduate-level students in health economics, as well as for researchers and policymakers.
Health Economics and Financing by Kesavan Sreekantan Nair Pdf
Healthcare is essential for the well-being of individuals, families and societies in accordance with human rights. Healthcare systems are vital to establish, promote, and strengthen delivery of preventive, promotive and curative health services to all sections of society in a fair and equitable manner. Economic principles play an important role in making rational decisions in health sector. Better understanding of health economics and financing by health policy makers can lead to more effective, efficient and equitable health systems. Economic considerations -- influence the performance of healthcare settings -- both in public and private sectors. This book provides an introduction to the conceptual underpinnings of economics of health. It focuses on health financing and understanding of how resources for healthcare are generated, pooled and used to deliver effective and equitable health services. Major models of healthcare financing -- including health insurance and its implications for the structure, planning and delivery of healthcare services -- have also been set forth. The work also provides useful information on economic evaluation methods used to make decisions by health planners to allocate resources in the health sector. This book has been designed to help students of medicine, public health, health management and other related courses who wish to understand the central economic issues in healthcare sector without much mathematical or analytical techniques.
Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India by Shailender Kumar Hooda Pdf
"This book describes the transition in Indian healthcare system since independence and contributes to the ongoing debate within development and institutional economics on the approaches towards reform in the public health system. The institutional reform perspective focuses on examining the effective utilisation of allotted resources and improvements in delivery through decentralisation in governance by ensuring higher participation of elected governments and local communities in politics, policymaking and delivery of health services. It discusses the economic (resource) reforms to explain the relevance and expansion of state interventionism along with its influence on the health sector, accountability and allocative efficiency. The author also explores the connections between neoliberal thought and privatisation in health sector, and examines the greater role of insurance-based financing and their implications for health service access and delivery. The book offers ways to address long-standing systemic and structural problems that confront the Indian healthcare system. Based on large-scale surveys and diverse empirical data on the Indian economy, this book will be of great interest to researchers, students and teachers of health economics, governance and institutional economics, political economy, sociology, public policy, regional studies and development studies. This will be useful to policymakers, health economists, social scientists, public health experts and professionals, and government and nongovernment institutions"--
Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India by A. Venkat Raman,James Warner Björkman Pdf
Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on India, this book examines how the private sector in developing countries is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and under-served sections of society through collaborative arrangements with the government. Having emerged as a key reform initiative, aspects of public-private partnership are examined such as the genesis of private sector partnerships, the ways in which the private sector is encouraged to deliver public health services, and the models and formats that make such partnerships possible. Based on in-depth case studies from different states of India and drawing on experiences in other countries, the authors analyse challenges, opportunities and benefits of implementing public-private partnerships and explore whether partnership with the private sector can be designed to deliver health care services to the poor as well as the consequences for beneficiaries. This book will be of interest to scholars of public policy and development administration, health policy and development economics as well as South Asian Studies.
Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf
The effective delivery of healthcare services is vital to the general welfare and well-being of a country’s citizens. Financial infrastructure and policy reform can play a significant role in optimizing existing healthcare programs. Health Economics and Healthcare Reform: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a comprehensive source of academic material on the importance of economic structures and policy reform initiatives in modern healthcare systems. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as clinical costing, patient engagement, and e-health, this book is ideally designed for medical practitioners, researchers, professionals, and students interested in the optimization of healthcare delivery.
Determinants of Health Status in India by Keya Sengupta Pdf
The book comprehensively discusses the various determinants shaping the health sector in India. Based on intensive research, it quantitatively identifies the determinants of health status in India within a macroeconomic framework, taking both the demand and the supply side into consideration. The book also discusses the various economic tools of analysis for understanding the challenges facing the health sector and explains why policy makers should refrain from applying uniform health policies in the urban and the rural sectors: uniform health policies for the urban and the rural sector cannot be expected to yield uniform outcomes, since the two sectors are characterized by two sets of entirely different challenges. The book further examines health challenges and their determinants separately for India’s rural and urban sector. The work also draws attention to the fact that, though finance is extremely important for better health outcomes, how the funds allocated to the health sector are utilised is even more critical. Highlighting the role of health management in this regard, the book provides an in-depth analysis of its role in achieving expected health outcomes, which it claims should constitute a pivotal part of India’s health policies.
Author : Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith Publisher : Health Policy Page : 264 pages File Size : 50,9 Mb Release : 2016-12-15 Category : Medical ISBN : 9289050411
Health System Efficiency by Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith Pdf
In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.
The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics by Sherry Glied,Peter C. Smith Pdf
The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the discipline. Contributions come from internationally-recognized leaders in health economics and reflect the worldwide reach of the discipline. Authoritative, but non-technical, the chapters place great emphasis on the connections between theory and policy-making, and develop the contributions of health economics to problems arising in a variety of institutional contexts, from primary care to the operations of health insurers. The volume addresses policy concerns relevant to health systems in both developed and developing countries. It takes a broad perspective, with relevance to systems with single or multi-payer health insurance arrangements, and to those relying predominantly on user charges; contributions are also included that focus both on medical care and on non-medical factors that affect health. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the current state of economic thinking in a given area, as well as the author's unique perspective on issues that remain open to debate. The volume presents a view of health economics as a vibrant and continually advancing field, highlighting ongoing challenges and pointing to new directions for further progress.
Health Economics by Jay Bhattacharya,Timothy Hyde,Peter Tu Pdf
Comprehensive in coverage this textbook, written by academics from leading institutions, discusses current developments and debates in modern health economics from an international perspective. Economic models are presented in detail, complemented by real-life explanations and analysis, and discussions of the influence of such theories on policymaking. Offering sound pedagogy and economic rigor, Health Economics focuses on building intuition alongside appropriate mathematical formality, translating technical language into accessible economic narrative. Rather than shying away from intellectual building blocks, students are introduced to technical and theoretical foundations and encouraged to apply these to inform empirical studies and wider policymaking. Health Economics provides: - A broad scope, featuring comparative health policy and empirical examples from around the world to help students relate the principles of health economics to everyday life - Coverage of topical issues such as the obesity epidemic, economic epidemiology, socioeconomic health disparities, and behavioural economics - A rich learning resource, complete with hundreds of exercises to help solidify and extend understanding. This book is designed for advanced undergraduate courses in health economics and policy but may also interest postgraduate students in economics, medicine and health policy. Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/health-economics. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
Health Care System in India by Brijesh C. Purohit Pdf
About the Book : - Health of the people plays a significant role in the overall economic and social development of a nation. Keeping this in view, the Indian planners have aimed at an efficient health system, encompassing promotive, preventive and curative components. However, studies on the measurement of efficiency in health care are limited both in number and coverage. Most of the available studies deal with macro level analysis and do not apply quantitative techniques at sub-state level. In this context this book is a very useful attempt at measuring efficiency in health care at sub-national as well as at sub-state level using econometric tools. In doing so it presents case studies of select States. At the outset this study provides a synoptic view of Indian health care sector and highlights the need for an efficient health care system. This is followed by an exhaustive review of all the econometric studies with a focus on application of data envelopment analysis and frontier estimation techniques. This is further followed by measurement of efficiency in health sector using an econometric model. Using both panel data and cross section data at state and sub-state level, it carries out an aggregate all India level; state level and sub-state level analysis of health system performance. At the state level it covers fourteen major rich, middle income and low income states. This is followed by a sub-state level analysis of five states which include Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, respectively. About the Author : - Dr. Brijesh C. Purohit is a Professor at Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India; He began his career in 1986 and worked as a researcher at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi (1986); an economist at the National Institute of Public Finance .and Policy, New Delhi (1986-90); an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur (1990-96); Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (1996); South Asian Visiting Scholar at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford (October 1996-March 1997); Faculty member at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad; Senior Fellow and Consultant at State Institute, Chandigarh; Senior Consultant at the Centre for. Policy Research, New Delhi (2001-02); Associate Professor at Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (2002-04), and Advisor with Reform Project of US AID, Ranchi (2004-07).
The Economics of Public Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies by Mr.David Coady,Mr.Benedict J. Clements,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta Pdf
Using cross-country analysis and case studies, this book provides new insights and potential policy responses for the key fiscal policy challenges that both advanced and emerging economies will be facing.
Introduction To Health Economics by Guinness, Lorna,Wiseman, Virginia Pdf
This text aims to provide non-economists with an introduction to economics in public health. It covers key economics principles, such as supply and demand, health care markets, healthcare finance and economic evaluation.
