Introductory notes

India’s badly broken health system is characterised by low level of priority in public spending on preventive and primary health care, large private sector provisioning of medical care, huge gaps in availability of facilities in public health institutions, and inadequate facilities for medical and paramedical teaching. As a result, people are unable to access decent health care services despite being forced to incur substantial out-of-pocket expenditure to meet health care costs.

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