Deepening Health Insecurity in India: Evidence from National Sample Surveys...
Drawing on evidence from the past morbidity and health surveys (1986-87 to 2004) and consumer expenditure surveys (1993-94 to 2004-05) of the National Sample Survey Organisation, this paper argues that...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Pricing Policy: A Critique
The recently announced draft National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy 2011 fails to ensure accessible and affordable medicines for all in India. This is due to the limited scope and market-based approach...
View ArticleWhy Publicly-Financed Health Insurance Schemes Are Ineffective in Providing...
This paper provides early and robust evidence on the impact of publicly-financed health insurance schemes on financial risk protection in India's health sector. It conclusively demonstrates that the...
View ArticlePublicly-Financed Health Insurance Schemes
A reply to T R Dilip's assertion (EPW, 5 May 2012) that Sakthivel Selvaraj and Anup K Karan (EPW, 17 March 2012) arrived at unacceptable conclusions due to methodological fl aws with regard to...
View ArticleDraft Drug Price Policy 2011
Pursuing its neo-liberal agenda of decontrol and liberalisation, the present government is planning to move towards market-based pricing from the current cost-plus-based pricing mechanism for drugs...
View ArticlePublicly-Financed Health Insurance Schemes
Furthering the debates on the impact assessment of publicly-financed health schemes, a response to two issues raised by Sukumar Vellakkal and Shah Ebrahim (EPW, 5 January 2013).read more
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