Effectiveness of government strategies for financial protection against costs of hospitalization Care in India

Abstract Background In the past decade, India has seen the introduction of many ‘publicly funded health insurance’ schemes (PFHIs) that claim to cover approximately 300 million people and are essentially forms of purchasing care from both public and private providers to reduce out-of-pocket expendit...

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Main Authors: Alok Ranjan, Priyanka Dixit, Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Sundararaman Thiagarajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-018-5431-8