Public health Expenditure

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Definition Health Expenditure: - Health expenditure refers to the sum of public and private health expenditure. It covers the provision of health services (preventive and curative), family planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but does not include provision of water and sanitation. It is calculated as the percentage of a nation's GDP. Total expenditure on health is the sum of general government health expenditure and private health expenditure in a given year, calculated in national currency units in current prices. (WHO) Public health Expenditure:- Public expenditure consists of recurrent and capital spending from government (central and local) budgets, external borrowings and grants (including donations from international agencies and nongovernmental organizations), and social (or compulsory) health insurance funds . Public funds are state, regional and local Government bodies and social security schemes. ) Private Health Expenditure: - Private health expenditure includes direct household (out-of-pocket) spending, private insurance, charitable donations, and direct service payments by private corporations. ) Health financing system in India Health finance:-Health financing as the “function of a health system concerned with the mobilization, accumulation and allocation of money to cover the health needs of the people, individually and collectively, in the health system”; the “purpose of health financing is to make funding available, as well as to set the right financial incentives to providers, to ensure that all individuals have access to effective public health and personal health care”(WHO 2007). Health financing has three key functions: revenue collection, pooling of resour... ... middle of paper ... ...illion during 2004–05 of which Rs. 20,884 million constituting 68.49% was routed through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. State governments received directly 10.73% of total external funds. Further grants to NGOs formed 20.78% of total external flow in 2004–05. Reference 1. http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2006HealthFinancing.pdf 2. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP 3. Figure 1, kataria, Finance of health care services (BOP-WHO workshop-1995) 4. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/india/health-expenditure-public-percent-of-gdp-wb-data.html 5. Figure 2, total expenditure on health public ,data source, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PUBL 6. Fig. 3, Health expenditure- Public (government),data source, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PUBL.ZS 7. Figure 4,data source, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.ZS

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