Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

V. S. Chitre ¹, S. Mulay ¹, R. Nagarajan ¹, Usha Ram ¹, A. M. Pisal ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, IN

Abstract

The present study is the outcome of a team research undertaken at the Population Research Centre of the Gokhale institute of Politics and Economics. The study tries to calculate the cost of providing hospital services on a per capita basis spread over seven districts of Maharashtra in the year 1999-2000. Average cost is calculated separately for each of the components like fixed and variable cost. An inter-districts comparison is also attempted to show the spatial difference in cost associated with hospital services. Lastly it argues the case of increasing efficiency in two ways: (i) by increasing the entitlements to health care and (ii) by lowering the costs.

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Usha Ram

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"Development of the basic amenities of the safe drinking water, sanitation, electricity, proper housing to the people are the pre-requisite not only for the sustained economic growth but they are the most important components of the primary health care" (UN 1995).

"Poor environmental sanitation - that include insufficient and unsafe water supply and lack of safe means of human disposal is a critical link in the chain of diarrhoeal diseases" (UN 1954, UNICEF 1989).

"No Single condition in the lives of masses has such a damaging effect on the health or does harm in so many ways as bad housing" (Robertson 1919).

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