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Financing for Health Coverage in India: Issues and Concerns

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  • Indrani Gupta

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The paper explores the trends, composition, and incidence of out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) in India, which has been the predominant means of financing its health care needs. Unit-level data from the National Sample Survey on Household Consumer Expenditure for the years 1993–94, 2004–05, and 2011–12 are used.

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  • Indrani Gupta, 2015. "Financing for Health Coverage in India: Issues and Concerns," Working Papers id:7008, eSocialSciences.
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    Keywords

    Household; Out-of-Pocket; Health; National Sample Survey; consumer; financing; OOPHE; India; expenditure; income; per capita consumption; health care; expenses;
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    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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