DR. POORNIMA TAPAS

Title:Review of Community Based Healthcare Financing in India

Authors: Poornima Tapas, Deepa Pillai
Journal: Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
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Abstract

Despite major improvements in recent years, life expectancy in India remains low as against countries at a similar level of development. Secluded regions of India has been confronted with multiple challenges in health care including low investment in health, lack of health financing policies, limited financial access to health services, limited health insurance coverage, lack of government aid, weak mechanism for collaborative arrangements at rural levels in the health sector. The paper is review based which discusses the framework of cross country community health care financing in reducing the social exclusion of availing health care facilities and also thrust on how the health care benefits can be reaped by the underprivileged sections of the society.