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Primary healthcare fails to meet needs of people it was built for: Lancet study -Taran Deol

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People in low-, middle-income countries often have to pay out of their pocket and seek care elsewhere

Funding in primary healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries is insufficient and access to it inequitable, a new study has reiterated.

Patients often have to pay for the services out of their pocket, the report published in the journal The Lancet Global Health April 4, 2022 noted, adding that these systems have failed to meet the needs of people it was built for.  

Primary healthcare is the backbone of health systems in India, like other low- and middle-income countries. The system in the country are strengthened by the National Health Mission and receive funding from state governments.

The central government put in place several mechanisms to encourage the states to invest in primary healthcare. These include assessing performance and accountability. The measures increased between 2008 and 2019, “state-level respondents did not feel that these policy levers necessarily increased effective use of funds,” the study found.

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