Monitoring and evaluating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in India

Narayanan Devadasan; Soumitra Ghosh; Sunil Nandraj; T Sundararaman

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001697

Monitoring and evaluating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in India

PLoS Med. 2014 Sep 22;11(9):e1001697. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001697. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Authors

Narayanan Devadasan¹, Soumitra Ghosh², Sunil Nandraj³, T Sundararaman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India.
² Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
³ Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.
⁴ National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

This paper is a country case study for the Universal Health Coverage Collection, organized by WHO. N. Devadasan and colleagues illustrate progress towards UHC and its monitoring and evaluation in India.

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Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Ambulatory Care / standards
Ambulatory Care / trends
Health Care Reform / standards*
Health Care Reform / trends
Humans
India
Postnatal Care / standards
Postnatal Care / trends
Universal Health Insurance / standards*
Universal Health Insurance / trends

Grants and funding

ND received a travel grant from the WHO to attend a workshop on UHC at Singapore. He also received a small honorarium from WHO to write this manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.