Aarogyasri healthcare model: Advantage private sector

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 46, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 38-42

  Shukla, Rajan ^a   Shatrugna, Veena ^b   Srivatsan, R ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

^c Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies   (India)

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References (9)

1. See http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/02/stories/2007040210300500.htm for a statement by the panchayati raj minister on the reasoning behind Aarogyasri: the patient so helped would remember the helper through out his life - note the characteristic focus on memory for vote bank politics rather than on healthcare to ensure welfare. Accessed on 8 October 2011.
2. See Indian Institute of Public Health, A Rapid Evaluation of the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme-Andhra Pradesh, p 45.
3. This description is adapted from the Indian Institute of Public Health, A Rapid Evaluation... pp 16-17.
4. Renu Shahrawat and Krishna D Rao (April 2011), "Insured Yet Vulnerable: Out-of-Pocket Payments and India's Poor" in Health Policy and Planning, pp 1-9.
5. For the World Bank intervention, see: http://blogs.worldbank.org/ developmenttalk/health-system-innovation-in-india-part-ii-aAarogyasri, accessed on 22 October 2011.
6. See The Hindu, 29 October 2009, http://wwwhindu.com/2009/10/28/stories/ 2009102856590400.htm, accessed on 1 November 2011. It is quite clear from the recent demand by the BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya that the treatment of dengue be included in Aarogyasri that this crisis has not yet been resolved.
7. See Deccan Chronicle, 26 October 2011, http://www.deccanchronicle.com/ channels/cities/regions/visakhapatnam/include-dengue-arogyasri-bjp-147, accessed on 1 November 2011.
8. See interesting position paper by Lions Head Global Partners in http://www.lhgp. com/0904-RoleOfIntemationalPrivateCapital.pdf.
9. Also see overview of the Lions Head Global Partners in http://www.lhgp. com/101113-LHGP-Overview.pdf. Accessed on 18 October 2011.