Private sector participation in delivering tertiary health care: a dichotomy of access and affordability across two Indian states.

ABSTRACT:

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Poor quality care in public sector hospitals coupled with the costs of care in the private sector have trapped India's poor in a vicious cycle of poverty, ill health and debt for many decades. To address this, the governments of Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Maharashtra (MH), India, have attempted to improve people's access to hospital care by partnering with the private sector. A number of government-sponsored schemes with differing specifications have been launched to facilitate this strategy.

Aims

This article aims to compare changes in access to, and affordability and efficiency of private and public hospital inpatient (IP) treatments between MH and AP from 2004 to 2012 and to assess whether the health financing innovations in one state resulted in larger or smaller

SUBMITTER: Katyal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4353890 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature