Financing For Health Security: User Charges And Health Insurance As Viable Options | BBL Sharma

Health Sector reforms as initiatives of recent origin in India deserve more careful understanding and analysis. This paper looks at the various modes of financing health care. The options like user charges and health insurance have been examined to address the challenges of health security. The importance of financing mechanisms and processes involved in production, distribution, utilization of health care services are discussed for their viability within the context of draft National Health Policy 2001.