Study Results from D. Maurya and Colleagues in the Area of Health Policy and Law Reported (Horses for Courses: Moving India towards Universal Health…
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Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "It aims to provide universal access to free primary care by strengthening the public system, and to secondary and tertiary care through strategic purchasing from the private sector, to overcome deficiencies in public provisioning in the short run. Yet, in doing so, it ignores critical factors needed to replicate successful models of public healthcare delivery from certain states that it hopes to emulate. The policy also overestimates the capacity of the public sector and down-plays the challenges observed in purchasing secondary care. Drawing from literature in policy design, we emphasize that primary, secondary and tertiary care have distinct characteristics, and their provision requires separate approaches or policy tools depending on the context. Public provisioning, contract purchasing and insurance mechanisms are different policy tools that have to be matched with the context and characteristics of the policy arena."
According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Given the current challenges of
For more information on this research see: Horses for Courses: Moving India towards Universal Health Coverage through Targeted Policy Design. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2017;15(6):733-744. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy can be contacted at: Springer International Publishing Ag, Gewerbestrasse 11,
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