Overview
- Covers all the dimensions of inequity in Indian healthcare, providing country-level, state-level, and district-level analyses
- Sheds vital new light on health research issues and policies pursued by the government of India
- Provides guidelines for policymaking to overcome inequity and improve life expectancy at a faster pace
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,. Further, it discusses various measures for defining inequity in each of these aspects, and employs different indices for each dimension of inequity, which include financing, utilization, region, health outcomes, caste and class, and gender. The book covers both theoretical and empirical issues, examining fifteen major Indian States, as well as selected case studies at the district level. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the book provides an overall view of the outcomes attributable to both economic development and policy changes per se. While providing essential data and insights for policymakers and researchers alike, the book also outlines further feasible policy changes that could potentially mitigate the current inequities in Indian healthcare. As such, it offers a valuable resource forupper graduate-level students in health economics, as well as for researchers and policymakers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Brijesh C. Purohit is currently a Professor at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India. After completing his PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India, he accumulated nearly 25 years of professional experience, including teaching, training, research and consultancy. He has served at various reputed institutions in India, and was also a South Asian Visiting scholar at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK. He has published a number of books and articles in reputed national and international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inequity in Indian Health Care
Authors: Brijesh C. Purohit
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5044-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5043-5Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5302-4Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5044-2Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 182
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Economics, Social Policy, Health Care Management, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights