What a Difference a State Makes: Health Reform in Andhra Pradesh
In the mid 2000s, India began introducing large scale, publicly financed health insurance programs that mostly targeted the poor. This report describes and analyzes Andhra Pradesh’s Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance program (Aarogyasri), which covers the expense of approximately nine hundred high …
Changes in addressing inequalities in access to hospital care in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states of India: a difference-in-differences study using repeated cross-sectional surveys
This study, co-authored by ACCESS Health, appeared in BMJ Open. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of the Andhra Pradesh public health insurance program, Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme, with health financing innovations in Maharashtra, including the Rashtriya …
Changes in addressing inequalities in access to hospital care in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states of India: a difference-in-differences study using repeated cross-sectional surveys
This study, co-authored by ACCESS Health, appeared in BMJ Open. The objective of the study was to compare the effects of the Andhra Pradesh public health insurance program, Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme, with health financing innovations in Maharashtra, including the Rashtriya …
Understanding public drug procurement n India: a comparative qualitative study of five Indian states
This study, which appeared in BMJ Open, provides an initial qualitative comparison of the different procurement models in India to frame questions for future research in this area; to capture the finer differences between the state models through 53 process and price …
Understanding public drug procurement n India: a comparative qualitative study of five Indian states
This study, which appeared in BMJ Open, provides an initial qualitative comparison of the different procurement models in India to frame questions for future research in this area; to capture the finer differences between the state models through 53 process and price …
An efficient model for improved access to quality healthcare services and reduced catastrophic healthcare expenditure?
In 2007, Andhra Pradesh launched a pioneering new state-wide fully state funded health insurance scheme, the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme (Aarogyasri) to reduce out of pocket health expenditure and improve access of poor families to treatment for serious and life …
Replicating Tamil Nadu’s Drug Procurement Model
This article, which appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, describes the procurement process established by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation. Most states in India attempted to copy the model of centralized tendering and purchase of drugs. A study of the Kerala …
Rapid Assessment Thayi Bhagya Scheme, Karnataka
This report describes the collaboration between ACCESS Health International and Karnataka State Health Systems Resource Center to provides a rapid assessment of the Thayi Bhagya Scheme. Initiated in 2009, this partnership between the government of Karnataka and private hospitals provides poor women …
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