Better Health Systems for India's Poor : Findings, Analysis, and Options

This report focuses on four areas of the health system in which reforms, and innovations would make the most difference to the future of the Indian health system: oversight, public health service delivery, ambulatory curative care, and inpatient care (together with health insurance). Part 1 of the report contains four chapters that discuss current conditions, and policy options. Part 2 presents the theory, and evidence to support the policy choices. The general reader may be most interested in the overview chapter, and in the highlights found at the beginning of each of the chapters in part 2. These highlights outline the empirical findings, and the main policy challenges discussed in the chapter. The report does not set out to prescribe detailed answers for India's future health system. It does however, have a goal: to support informed debate, and consensus building, and to help shape a health system that continually strives to be more effective, equitable, efficient, and accountable to the Indian people, and particularly to the poor.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Peters, David H., Yazbeck, Abdo S., Sharma, Rashmi R., Ramana, G. N. V., Pritchett, Lant H., Wagstaff, Adam
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2002
Subjects:	ALCOHOL, BASIC HEALTH CARE, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILDBIRTH, CLINICS, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, COMMUNITY HEALTH, CONSUMER GROUPS, CURATIVE HEALTH CARE, DEATHS, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, DISEASE RISK FACTORS, DISTRICTS, DOCTORS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, GENDER, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH CONDITIONS, HEALTH COSTS, HEALTH EXPENDITURES, HEALTH FACILITIES, HEALTH FINANCING, HEALTH MANPOWER, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH PROGRAMS, HEALTH PROVIDERS, HEALTH REFORM, HEALTH SECTOR, HEALTH SECTOR WORKERS, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH STATUS, HEALTH SYSTEM, HEALTH SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL BEDS, HOSPITAL PATIENTS, HOSPITAL SERVICES, HOSPITALIZATION, HOSPITALS, HOUSEHOLDS, IMMUNODEFICIENCY, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANT MORTALITY RATE, INPATIENT CARE, INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS, INTERVENTION, LAWS, MALNUTRITION, MANAGERS, MENTAL ILLNESS, MORTALITY, NGOS, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, NURSES, NUTRITION, OUTPATIENT CARE, PARTNERSHIP, PATIENTS, PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, PHARMACY, PREGNANCY, PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTORS, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC HOSPITALS, PUBLIC SECTOR, QUALITY CONTROL, RISK FACTORS, SOCIAL STUDIES, SURGERY, VIOLENCE, WORKERS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/1783705/better-health-systems-indias-poor-findings-analysis-options https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14080
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