The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released the <\/span>National Health Accounts Report for 2017-18.<\/span><\/p>\n Produced by:<\/b> National Health Systems Resource Centre (It is designated as National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat in 2014 by the Health Ministry).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source of Data: <\/b>The report was prepared by using an accounting framework based on the internationally accepted System of Health Accounts 2011 provided by the World Health Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n Government Expenditure on Healthcare<\/b><\/p>\n The share of government expenditure on healthcare has increased to 1.35% of GDP in 2017-18 from 1.15% in 2013-14.<\/span><\/p>\n In per capita terms, the Government health expenditure has increased from \u20b91,042 to \u20b91,753 between 2013-14 to 2017-18.<\/span><\/p>\n Out of Pocket Expenditure on Health<\/b><\/p>\n Out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) as a share of total health expenditure has come down to 48.8% in 2017-18 from 64.2% in 2013-14.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The per capita out-of-pocket expenditure has declined to Rs 2,097 in 2017-18 from 2,336 in 2013-14.<\/span><\/p>\n The government has attributed the fall in out-of-pocket expenditure to the increased utilisation of government health facilities and reduction in the cost of services at these facilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Foreign Aid to Health<\/b><\/p>\n The share of foreign aid for health declined to 0.5% from 0.6% the previous year, which the government attributes to India\u2019s economic self-reliance.<\/span><\/p>\n Primary Health Care<\/b><\/p>\n The share of primary healthcare in the current government expenditure has increased to 54.7% in 2017-18 from 51.1% in 2013.14.<\/span><\/p>\n The primary and secondary health care together accounted for 86% of the government health expenditure in 2017-18 up from 75% in 2016-17.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In contrast, the share of primary and secondary care in the private sector has declined from 84% to 74%, while that of tertiary care increased.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Per capita out-of-pocket health expenditure sees decline: report<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 30th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released the National Health Accounts Report for 2017-18. About the National Health Accounts Report Produced by: National Health Systems Resource Centre (It is designated as National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat in 2014 by the Health Ministry).\u00a0 Source of Data: The report was prepared… Continue reading Per capita out-of-pocket health expenditure sees decline: report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700785752,"cached_date":1704762102},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149803","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the National Health Accounts Report<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key findings of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n