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Access of the rural poor to primary healthcare in India
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In this article, the authors examined the coverage of basic primary healthcare services among the below the poverty line (BPL) population in rural areas of India and provided direct empirical evidence.Abstract:
The 11th Five-Year Plan of India emphasises the wider and better coverage of services, such as primary healthcare for the majority of population. For this purpose, various healthcare related programmes have aimed at the vulnerable sections of the society traditionally using social criteria like Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) populations. Although they are found to have marginally worse health outcomes than the national average, they are far better than the one’s for the poor on economic criteria. The present article examines the coverage of basic primary healthcare services among the below the poverty line (BPL) population in rural areas of India and provides direct empirical evidence. Data used for the study was from a primary sample survey of rural BPL households in six states of India. The results of the survey showed that the coverage of primary healthcare services, such as ante-natal care (ANC), institutional deliveries, and immunisation was very low among the BPL population. Moreove...read more
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Assuring health coverage for all in India
Vikram Patel,Vikram Patel,Rachana Parikh,Sunil Nandraj,P. M. Balasubramaniam,Kavita Narayan,Vinod K. Paul,A K Shiva Kumar,M. B. Chatterjee,K. Srinath Reddy,K. Srinath Reddy +10 more
TL;DR: Only a radical restructuring of the health-care system that promotes health equity and eliminates impoverishment due to out-of-pocket expenditures will assure health for all Indians by 2022--a fitting way to mark the 75th year of India's independence.
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Availability of infrastructure and manpower for primary health centers in a district in Andhra Pradesh, India.
TL;DR: PHCs lack the manpower and vital infrastructure that are necessary for the effective day-to-day functioning and provision of primary healthcare to the population.
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Key barriers in the growth of rural health care: an ISM-MICMAC approach
Santosh Kumar,Roopali Sharma +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified 19 barriers in the field of growth of health care mainly in rural area with 11 levels in interpretive structural modeling (ISM) analysis was used to understand the impact and linkage of identified barriers.
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Household Registration System, Migration, and Inequity in Healthcare Access.
TL;DR: The empirical results show that people with a non-rural household registration type generally have better healthcare access than those with a rural one, and mere rural-to-urban migration may not be a valid measure to eliminate the rural–urban disparity in healthcare access, unless the institution of healthcare resource allocation is reformed.
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Pathak Kb,Kanitkar T,Roy Tk +2 more
TL;DR: The authors outline the organization and administration of India's National Family Health Survey, for which data collection was scheduled for completion in June 1993, and data analysis and survey objectives are discussed.
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Utilization of maternal health care services in Southern India
TL;DR: Results show that utilization of maternal health care services is highest in Kerala followed by Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, and there was no significant rural-urban gap in the case of antenatal care.
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Inequities in Access to Health Services in India: Caste, Class and Region
TL;DR: Critical to ensuring health for all in the immediate future will be the effectiveness with which India addresses inequities in provisioning of health services and assurance of quality care.
The poor and health services use in India
TL;DR: Empirical findings from recent World Bank financed analysis on the use of health services by the poor in India are summarized and some additional analysis conducted with the same data are conducted.
Improving Access, Service Delivery and Efficiency of the Public Health System in Rural India
TL;DR: This book is the product of a request made by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to an International Advisory Panel (IAP) on the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to undertake a mid-term evaluation of the functioning of the NRHM.