Decentralization and public delivery of health care services in India

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 991-1001

  Singh, Nirvikar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; INDIA; REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE REFORM; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 48149115874     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.4.991     Document Type: Review

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2. Planning Commission, "Approach Paper to the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002-2007)" (New Delhi: Government of India, 2001).
3. These problems are not insurmountable; see, for example, U. Dulleck and R. Kerschbamer, "On Doctors, Mechanics, and Computer Specialists: the Economics of Credence Goods," Journal of Economic Literature 44, no. 1 (2006): 5-42
4. A.V. Banerjee, A. Deaton, and E. Duflo, "Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan," American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 94, no. 2 (2004): 326-330;
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8. This section is based on M.G. Rao and N. Singh, The Political Economy of Federalism in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), which provides detailed analysis and data on all aspects of India's federal system. It has been abridged because of space constraints. The entire section is available as an online appendix at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/ 3/991/DC1.
9. World Bank, India: Inclusive Growth and Service Delivery: Building on India's Success, Development Policy Review, Report no. 34580-IN (Washington: World Bank, 2006).
10. Planning Commission, National Human Development Report (New Delhi: Government of India, 2002).
11. N. Singh et al., "Regional Inequality in India: A Fresh Look," Economic and Political Weekly (15 March 2003): 1069-1073.
12. S. Howes and R. Murgai, "Subsidies and Salaries: Issues in the Restructuring of Government Expenditure in India," in A Sustainable Fiscal Policy for India: An International Perspective, ed. P. Heller and M.G. Rao (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005).
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28. Planning Commission, Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth: An Approach to the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (New Delhi: Government of India, 14 June 2006), 52.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., 54.
31. Hammer et al., "Bottom's Up."
32. These points are made categorically in Finance Commission, "Local Bodies."
33. Duflo, "Putting Band Aid on a Corpse."
34. Finance Commission, "Local Bodies."
35. Hammer et al., "Bottom's Up."
36. I. Bhushan et al., "Contracting for Health: Evidence from Cambodia," Paper for the Eighth BREAD Conference on Development Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 5-6 May 2006.
37. The India Health Care Project in Andhra Pradesh (funded by the InfoDev project of the World Bank) has used customized personal digital assistants (PDAs) provided to the field staff of public health centers for medical database construction and patient tracking; see C.L.R. Sastry, "India Health Care Project: An Application of IT in Rural Health Care at Grass Root Level," Information Technology in Developing Countries 13, no. 1 (2003): 17-20.
38. Health mapping exercises for information kiosks in Kerala are described in B. Parthasarathy et al., "Information and Communications Technologies for Development: A Comparative Analysis of Impacts and Costs from India," Project Report (New Delhi: Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, 2005).
39. N. Singh, "State Finances in India: A Case for Systemic Reform," in Documenting Reform: Case Studies from India, ed. S. Narayan (New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2006), 56-86.