Differential financing of public health facilities

Differential financing of public health facilities

Introduction The health system in India suffers from low level of public spending and high out of pocket payment. Public health facilities are funded on a fixed and uniform basis irrespective of their needs and performance. The National Rural Health Mission has introduced an innovative approach of flexible financing to public health facilities under Untied Funds (UF), Annual Maintenance Grant (...

Financing public health in europe.

AIM The aim of this study was to ascertain the levels and mechanisms of funding public health in Europe. METHODS A review of published and unpublished documents and expenditure data was undertaken. RESULTS Expenditure on public health in Europe is difficult to determine, but data from national health accounts suggest that it differs greatly across countries, both as a percentage of total he...

Poverty & health: criticality of public financing.

Countries with universal or near universal access to healthcare have health financing mechanisms which are single-payer systems in which either a single autonomous public agency or a few coordinated agencies pool resources to finance healthcare. This contributes to both equity in healthcare as well as to low levels of poverty in these countries. It is only in countries like India and a number o...

Defining difficult public health facilities

Introduction In its efforts to strengthen the rural public health system, the National Rural Health Mission had to address the challenge of getting skilled health care providers to work in rural and remote areas. Learning from states, which had some measure of success with incentives for doctors in such areas, the central government decided to launch a scheme to provide these incentives to stat...

Financing Rural Public Health Activities in Prevention and Health Promotion