Background: To improve health equity, many countries have undergone consistent health
sector reforms during the two past decades although most of them still have some …

Equity in healthcare has been a long-term guiding principle of health policy in India. We
estimate the change in horizontal inequities in healthcare use over two decades comparing …

The Burden of diseases are changing its course throughout the globe and so does the
utilisation of healthcare by the population. The paper focuses on the North-Eastern region of …

Abstract Background Health outcomes in India are characterized by pervasive inequities
due to deeply entrenched socio-economic gradients amongst the population. Therefore, it is …

This chapter investigates two crucial aspects of healthcare in one of the Northeastern states
in India, namely, Assam. The first one deals with the comparison of inter-district healthcare …

Purpose This study investigates how and in what circumstances a school‐based eye health
programme, the Refractive Errors Among CHildren (REACH) programme, achieved its …

The aims of this study were to determine if dental colleges are clustered in selective states in
India and if population to dental college admissions (seats) is correlated with regional …

Treatment-seeking behaviour is closely associated with the health status of individuals and
countries. About 800 million people have no access to health services in the developing …

Background: Equity in access and financing healthcare is a key determinant of population
health. This study examined the socioeconomic inequality in healthcare utilization and …

Assuming impervious boundaries of public health service systems when searching for
answers to its problems can be misleading as historically, economic and welfare planning to …