The book comprehensively discusses the various determinants shaping the health sector in India.
Based on intensive research it quantitatively identifies the determinants of health status in
India within a macroeconomic framework taking both the demand and the supply side into
consideration. The book also discusses the various economic tools of analysis for understanding
the challenges facing the health sector and explains why policy makers should refrain from
applying uniform health policies in the urban and the rural sectors: uniform health policies
for the urban and the rural sector cannot be expected to yield uniform outcomes since the two
sectors are characterized by two sets of entirely different challenges. The book further
examines health challenges and their determinants separately for India's rural and urban
sector. The work also draws attention to the fact that though finance is extremely important
for better health outcomes how the funds allocated to the health sector are utilised is even
more critical. Highlighting the role of health management in this regard the book provides an
in-depth analysis of its role in achieving expected health outcomes which it claims should
constitute a pivotal part of India's health policies.
