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Health
Budget 2006-07: New Directions?
There is a growing interest in discussion and analysis of
health budgets and health expenditures for two reasons. Firstly,
the economic reforms of the 90s have created a trajectory
of public health spending that shows a downward trend both
in terms of share of the Government's budget as well as a
proportion of the Gross Domestic Product.Secondly, the use
of the public health system during the decade of 1987 and
1996, for which national data is available via the 42nd and
52nd Rounds of the National Sample Survey (NSS) of the Government
of India, shows a shocking decline of over 30 per cent in
proportion of patients seeking care in public health institutions.
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