Public expenditure on Non-Communicable Diseases & Injuries in India: A budget-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Resource allocation decisions for disease categories can be informed by proper estimates of the magnitude and distribution of total spending. In the backdrop of a high burden of Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDI) in India, and a paucity of estimates on government spending on NCDI, this paper attempts to analyse public sector expenditure on NCDI spending in India.

Methods

Various recent budget documents of the Centre and States/Union Territories have been used to extract expenditure on NCDI. The aggregates thus arrived at have been analysed to estimate aggregate and state level per capita spending. State level spending have been compared against disease burden using DALYs. Patterns of spending on NCDI across states were also analysed together with state

SUBMITTER: Gupta I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6742225 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature