Ten Year Anniversary of ACCESS Health International
In 2017, ACCESS Health International celebrated its tenth anniversary. In ten years, ACCESS Health grew from a single office in Hyderabad, India to a global organization with offices in many of the major cities of the world, including New Delhi, Singapore, Beijing, …
Fiscal Devolution in India: Taking Stock of the Changing Policy Environment
The following report describes a qualitative study of recent changes to the health system in India. This country’s health system is moving toward more decentralized operations and increased decision making at the state level. These changes will require state governments in India …
Safe Care, Saving Lives Learning Session III Report
Safe Care, Saving Lives is a quality improvement program designed to increase newborn survival rates across the previously united Andhra Pradesh, now split into two states in India. The premise of Safe Care, Saving Lives is that improvements in clinical care practices …
Market Forces in Primary Care Systems: A Framework
Studies suggest that India needs to strengthen its primary and preventive healthcare across both public and private sectors to achieve universal health coverage. This report explains the importance of primary care as a platform for preventive efforts, such as nutrition counseling, mothers’ …
Universal Health Coverage in Kerala Through a Primary Care Pilot Project
This report investigates the origin, design, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of the Universal Health Coverage Primary Healthcare Startup Project in Kerala, India. It provides information about the experiences, lessons learned, and impact of this initial stage of the project. In 2012 the …
Madhya Pradesh Health Systems Assessment Report
In India, Madhya Pradesh was identified by the National Health Mission as a high focus state. Madhya Pradesh has some of the poorest maternal and child health indicators in India. The ACCESS Health International team studied the healthcare delivery systems in two …
Focusing on Primary Health to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in IndiaVrishali Shekhar
Financing of healthcare is one of the critical determinants of achieving better health outcomes. In India, a government agency, National Health Accounts, monitors the flow of resources in a country’s health system and provides detailed data on health finances has divided insurance …
Landscaping of Primary Healthcare in India
This landscape review of primary care services in India documents the state of primary care delivery and highlights a handful of initiatives toward a future system design. The discussion focuses on four pillars: service delivery (with a focus on networks), financing, community …
Has the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme of Andhra Pradesh Addressed the Educational Divide in Accessing Healthcare?
Equity of access to healthcare remains a major challenge. Families continue to face financial and non financial barriers to services. Lack of education has been shown to be a key risk factor for catastrophic health expenditure in many countries, including India. This …
Integrating the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Program with Primary Healthcare: An Analysis of Information Technology Systems and Processes
As funding and payment models evolve, healthcare delivery organizations are rethinking the services they offer. This report describes the efforts of ACCESS Health to assess the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) insurance program, which provides secondary level healthcare to more than thirty …
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