- Economic and Political Weekly Universalising Health coverage is the current goal of the Health service system in India. Tax-funded insurance for poor families is the method chosen for attaining this objective. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana was rolled out in 2008 for households below the poverty line, enabling them to access Health services in the public and private sectors. However, experience from different countries shows tax-funded insurance systems work well...
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Public Financing for Health Coverage in India: Who Spends, Who Benefits and At What Cost? -Indrani Gupta and Samik Chowdhury
-Economic and Political Weekly Any discussion on universal Health coverage in India is premature without a comprehensive understanding of public financing of Health coverage in the country. This article analyses the government's share of financial resources for Health across different agents, with particular focus on resources for Health coverage. An attempt is made to separate spending for Health in general and Health coverage in particular, and to examine the issue of...
More »Universal Health Coverage: Reform of the Government System Better Than Quality Health Insurance -Monica Das Gupta and VR Muraleedharan
-Economic and Political Weekly For India to improve the existing government Health system is far less complex than expanding Health insurance. International experience shows the difficulties of regulating an insurance-based system to keep costs down and assure quality. Monica Das Gupta (mdasgupta@gmail.com) teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park, the US. V R Muraleedharan (vrm@iitm. ac.in) teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Please click here to download. ...
More »India Seeks Pepsi Role In School Meal Scheme
-Business World Soft drinks giant looking to reduce sugar contents in products, says minister Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday (26 August) said global food and beverages major PepsiCo is looking to bring down sugar contents in its soft drinks. Badal met PepsiCo's India-born Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi in New Delhi. "In soft drinks they (PepsiCo) are looking at how to bring down the sugar content (but) that...
More »WHO calls for decisive action to reduce climate change impacts on Health -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth According to data from Health agency, climate change is causing tens of thousands of deaths every year from shifting patterns of disease Change in energy and transport policies could save millions of lives annually from the diseases caused by high levels of air pollution. Not only this, the right energy and transport policies could also reduce the burden of disease associated with physical inactivity and traffic injury, Experts participated...
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