{"id":120183,"date":"2021-07-21T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=120183"},"modified":"2021-07-21T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:25:00","slug":"indias-health-inequality-made-worse-by-reduced-health-budget-oxfam-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-health-inequality-made-worse-by-reduced-health-budget-oxfam-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s health inequality made worse by reduced health budget: Oxfam report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/health\/india-s-health-inequality-made-worse-by-reduced-health-budget-oxfam-report-121072000396_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Business Standard<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oxfam-international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxfam<\/a> India released <strong>\u201cInequality Report 2021: India\u2019s Unequal Healthcare Story\u201d<\/strong>. Oxfam India&#8217;s inequality report draws attention to the county&#8217;s unequal healthcare story hit further by Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that the constant underfunding of the public healthcare system in the last decade have worsened health infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key findings of the report<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120186 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Inequality-Report-2021-Indias-Unequal-Healthcare-Story.jpg?resize=620%2C309&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Inequality Report 2021 - India\u2019s Unequal Healthcare Story\" width=\"620\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Inequality-Report-2021-Indias-Unequal-Healthcare-Story.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Inequality-Report-2021-Indias-Unequal-Healthcare-Story.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report says that the absence of universal health coverage has starkly and disproportionately affected marginalised groups at a time when socio-economic inequalities in India are growing because of the Covid-19 pandemic. When it comes to healthcare,\n<ul>\n<li>People in the general category are better off than Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) households;<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>rich do better than the poor<\/strong>; men are better off than women, and<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>urban population fares better than the rural<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The disastrous second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic further exposed the weakness of India\u2019s public healthcare system. Such as,\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, <strong>India ranks 155 out of 167 countries on bed availability and has five beds and 8.6 doctors per 10,000 of its population<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Rural India, which makes for 70 per cent of the population, has barely 40 per cent of the beds.<\/li>\n<li>The number of hospital beds per thousand population in India (at 0.5) is lower than some of the lesser developed countries such as Bangladesh (0.87), Kenya (1.4), and Chile (2.1).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Persistent underfunding of (the) public health system<\/strong>, especially primary health care and inadequate health infrastructure in India <strong>remain to be addressed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Over the years, a <strong>better health system<\/strong> has, for instance, helped increase life expectancy, but <strong>outcomes have varied across gender, caste and income levels.\u00a0<\/strong>For instance,\n<ul>\n<li>The rich, on average, live seven-and-a-half years more than the poor<\/li>\n<li>A woman from the general category lives, on an average, 15 years longer than a Dalit woman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Oxfam India findings show that <strong>higher public health allocations have a positive effect on health outcomes<\/strong> in a pandemic. For instance, States such as Odisha and Goa, with higher expenditure on health, also had higher recovery rate from Covid-19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120185 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Expenditure-on-health.jpg?resize=425%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Expenditure on health\" width=\"425\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Expenditure-on-health.jpg?w=425&amp;ssl=1 425w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Expenditure-on-health.jpg?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Oxfam\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-criticises-oxfam-inequality-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Commitment to Reducing Inequality Report 2020<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, <strong>India ranks 154th in health spending<\/strong>, <strong>fifth from the bottom<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>In the 2021-22 Union Budget, a year following a pandemic, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) budget was allocated with a 9.8 percent decline from the Revised Estimates of 2020-21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Recommendations of the report<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The report recommends the <strong>implementation of universal health coverage (UHC)<\/strong> supported by a strong public health sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Business Standard What is the news? Recently, Oxfam India released \u201cInequality Report 2021: India\u2019s Unequal Healthcare Story\u201d. Oxfam India&#8217;s inequality report draws attention to the county&#8217;s unequal healthcare story hit further by Covid-19. The report shows that the constant underfunding of the public healthcare system in the last decade have worsened health infrastructure. Key&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-health-inequality-made-worse-by-reduced-health-budget-oxfam-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India&#8217;s health inequality made worse by reduced health budget: Oxfam report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[8543,2178],"class_list":["post-120183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indias-health-inequality-made-worse-by-reduced-health-budget","tag-oxfam","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":13,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703745036},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}