UCLA Global Lab for Health Project: Implementation Completion Report
This report discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with transferring fourteen innovations introduced by medical professionals from India across healthcare systems and markets to be adopted by partners in the United States. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) asked ACCESS Health …
National standards of care quality would help India enable health coverage for all
This opinion piece was written in 2014, when elections in India were underway. The national parties in India had issued manifestos outlining their visions for the future of health in India. In this article, which appeared in BMJ, the ACCESS Health author …
Innovative Health Insurance in Andhra Pradesh — Has It Worked as Planned?
This research digest summarizes findings from the ACCESS Health research paper on the Aarogyasri health insurance program in Andhra Pradesh, What a Difference a State Makes. The state funded program has increased per capita inpatient admissions. It has also slowed growth in …
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 …
Using the Indian National Sample Survey data in public health research
The National Sample Survey is a multi stage, multi subject, and multi purpose cross sectional survey, conducted annually. The objective of this paper in the National Medical Journal of India is to inform the reader about the planning and execution of the …
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 …
Improving the Health of Mother and Child: Solutions from India
Improving the Health of Mother and Child: Solutions from India is a compendium of sixteen case studies of maternal and child healthcare providers in India. The case studies identify and document effective service delivery approaches from maternal and child healthcare providers in …
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