The Major Trends In Public Health Care Spending In India And Its Relationship With Health Care Outcomes Among North Eastern States
Out of pocket spending on health care has become a public discourse in India and the world over due to its overwhelming capacity to impact the economic status of the people who make the spending especially the poor households. In fact many households have become poor and many have been pushed deeper into the poverty trap due catastrophic out of pocket spending on health care. Therefore, it is pertinent that the government spending on health care is taken care off to protect the health and wealth of its people. This paper seeks to investigate with empirical evidences from secondary data on the public health care spending and the out of pocket spending in India with special reference to the North Eastern States (NER) of India. The paper is contextualized within the construction of government spending on health care and the extent of out of pocket spending of the people in the NER. In this milieu the broad objective of the paper is to analyze the public health care spending in India and amongst the north eastern states of India. Further, it discusses relationship of public spending with health care outcomes. It is emphasized the need for increasing the government expenditure on health care in the region to maneuver and realize balanced regional development in the context of availability of effective health care services. Keywords Public Health Spending, out of pocket spending, health performance, Inclusive Development, North Eastern States Normal 0 21 false false false RO X NONE X NONE Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable {mso style name:"Table Normal" mso tstyle rowband size:0; mso tstyle colband size:0; mso style noshow:yes; mso style priority:99; mso style parent:" mso padding alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso para margin top:0cm; mso para margin right:0cm; mso para margin bottom:10.0pt; mso para margin left:0cm; line height:115% mso pagination:widow orphan; font size:11.0pt; font family:"Calibri""sans serif" mso ascii font family:Calibri; mso ascii theme font:minor latin; mso hansi font family:Calibri; mso hansi theme font:minor latin; mso bidi font family:"Times New Roman" mso bidi theme font:minor bidi; mso fareast language:EN US;