DOCUMENT | 20 Nov 2023
Health financing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for universal health care
NEWS | 05 Apr 2022
Health budget in light of pandemic
This paper is an attempt to demonstrate the planned reforms in the health budget, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is to be seen how the financial allocation for the health sector impacts the health of the Indian people. Access this paper here
Know MoreNEWS | 23 Dec 2021
Now available: Executive summary of the second of the four-part webinar series on Health Financing in India in the time of pandemic
The second India-specific webinar was held on 19 October 2021 as part of the P4H Network’s webinar series. It brought together national and international experts to discuss health financing and social health protection issues and potential ways forward. The webinar focused on health financing in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendees numbered 105 national and international health...
Know MoreNEWS | 14 Oct 2021
Webinar 2: Health financing in India in time of Pandemic
Please click here to Register and join us on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 2.30 PM – 04.00 PM (IST) This webinar is the second of the four webinar series, organised by P4H and WHO India, in a collaborative knot with Access Health International (AHI) and India Health Systems Collaborative (IHSC) with an aim to bring together premier...
Know MoreNEWS | 14 Sep 2021
Lessons & Way Forward from the First Webinar on Health Financing in India
The Webinar Series on health financing in India kicked off on 18 August 2021 to discuss the burning health financing and social health protection issues in the country and debate potential ways forward. The four-webinar series is organised by P4H in collaboration with ACCESS Health International (AHI) and the India Health Systems Collaborative (IHSC). The...
Know MoreNEWS | 29 Jul 2021
Revisiting Ayushman Bharat Scheme: Win-win or win-lose?
Disha Bhanot, Assistant Professor at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai writes about how COVID-19 has exposed the dark underbelly of our healthcare system and health insurance schemes may have little chance of achieving sustained benefits. With an objective to decrease the out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure on health and prevent impoverishment thereof, the Ayushman...
Know MoreNEWS | 03 Jun 2021
Strengthening health financing response in COVID-19
The COVID-19 war and commitment towards UHC hinge on the criticality of designing strategic health financing policies in India. The pandemic provides the window of opportunity to reflect on our health financing objectives to strengthen the health system resilience and health security to insulate ourselves from a health emergency. Currently, the health system response to...
Know MoreNEWS | 28 Apr 2021
COVID-19 in India: Who are we leaving behind?
The world’s COVID-19 response has been unsettling especially regarding people living in informal settlements, migrants, refugees, and other ultra-vulnerable populations. It reiterates serious concerns about health inequality, as well as people lacking human rights and dignity including access to basic services and infrastructures to survive the pandemic. India witnessed a massive explosion of COVID-19 infections...
Know MoreNEWS | 28 Apr 2021
Economics of COVID‑19: Challenges and Way Forward for Health Policy in India
The emergence of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic provides unique challenges for the health system. In this paper, the authors used economic underpinnings to explain several of these challenges and suggest a way forward for health policy, during, and after the COVID‑19 pandemic in India. Historically, health systems in India are wrought with low...
Know MoreNEWS | 13 Apr 2021
Deferment of Labour Codes delays health & income security to gig workers in India
Furthering the agenda of labour empowerment, India consolidated 29 central labour laws into four codes – The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code on Wages, 2019. The Social Security Code, 2020 proposes to extend social security benefits like health...
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