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Health Expenditure Benefit Incidence: WHO International Classification of Diseases-wise Analysis of India

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  • Chakraborty, Lekha S
  • Bhadra, Kaushik
  • Arora, Rashmi

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‘Fiscal policies and inequality’ is an elusive area of research. This study examines disease-wise utilisation of publicly subsidised healthcare in India using benefit incidence analysis. Quite contrary to the earlier studies on benefit incidence analysis based on aggregate public health spending, our study attempts the benefit capture by mapping the classification of diseases extracted from the unit record data of the latest 75th National Sample Survey health rounds with the latest International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-11 of version 2024 produced by World Health Organisation (WHO). Our broad findings based on the WHO_ICD disease- specific benefit incidence analysis revealed that the public health subsidy appears to be pro- poor or progressive in distribution for WHO_ICD categories, however with evident gender differentials. The disaggregated benefit incidence analysis based on ICD also showed that there is no “elite capture” in the public health financing in India. This inference has policy implications for strengthening the role of fiscal policy in further ensuing equality and social justice in access and utilisation of health care in India.

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  • Chakraborty, Lekha S & Bhadra, Kaushik & Arora, Rashmi, 2025. "Health Expenditure Benefit Incidence: WHO International Classification of Diseases-wise Analysis of India," MPRA Paper 123785, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:123785
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    Keywords

    concentration curve; public healthcare; health inequality; benefit incidence analysis; gender;
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    JEL classification:

    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development

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