Browsing by Author "Balarajan, Y"
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Health care and equity in India
Balarajan, Y; Selvaraj, S; Subramanian, Sv (The Lancet, 2011)
In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of the increasing financial burden of health care being met by households. Health-care expenditures exacerbate poverty, with about 39 million additional people falling into poverty every year as a result of such expenditures. We identify key challenges for the achievement of equity in service provision, and equity in financing and ...