Health Care System In India

Health of the people plays a significant role in the overall economic and social development of a nation. Keeping this in view, the Indian planners have aimed at an efficient health system, encompassing primitive, preventive and curative components. However, studies on the measurement of efficiency in health care are limited both in number and coverage. Most of the available studies deal with macro level analysis and do not apply quantitative techniques at sub-state level. In this context this book is an attempt at measuring efficiency in healthcare at sub-national as well as sub-state level using econometric tools.