Health Financing and Universal Health Coverage
Financing of health and healthcare is an important health system building block and is crucial to a well-performing health system. Indian states have struggled to improve and sustain adequate financing for health and healthcare. In addition, most Indian states have not yet systematically organised their health servcies to ensure equitable and universal health across all populations and geographies. In this cluster, we undertake focused research and action on financing of health and contribute towards efforts to achieve universal health coverage in states and nationally.
Using evidence generated from research IPH has been advocating for equitable health financing with universal coverage.
- Dr N Devadasan is part of the EDC at Suvarnna Arogya Suraksha Trust
- Dr N Devadasan was a member of the committee to restructure RSBY at Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- Dr N Devadasan was a member of the National Health Assurance Committee at Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- The health insurance chapter on NRHM was developed by IPH
- Dr N Devadasan was part of the RSBY team during the design and early implementation at MOLE.
- IPH has conducted training programmes on health insurance for various govt officers across the most of the states in India.
- Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in India
- Private healthcare providers threatened by the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme
- The Karnataka case study report: Project report of Health Inc project
- Promoting universal financial protection: evidence from the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in Gujarat, India.
- Impact of RSBY on enrolled households: lessons from Gujarat
- Towards universal health coverage: An operational manual for states in India
- Study of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) Health Insurance in India, Gujarat District
- Out-of-pocket healthcare payments on chronic conditions impoverish urban poor in Bangalore, India
- Can health insurance improve access to quality care for the Indian poor?
- Community health insurance schemes & patient satisfaction – evidence from India
- Community health insurance and universal coverage: Multiple paths, many rivers to cross
- The effect of community health insurance schemes on patient satisfaction – evidence from India
- Community health insurance in Gudalur, India increases access to hospital care
- Health security for all: Government initiatives in health insurance
- Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana – An overview
- Perspectives and prospects in micro health insurance: the Indian scenario
- Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure
- Health Financing: Protecting the Poor
- Community health insurance in India: can we learn from them?
- Payments for health care in India
- Community health insurance and its relevance to India
- Iatrogenic poverty: or how the medical profession impoverishes families.
- Viability of Community Health insurance schemes
- The landscape of community health insurance in India: An overview based on 10 case studies
- Community health insurance in India: a strategy to cover the informal sector
- Insuring health of the rural poor: Lessons learnt from community health insurance schemes in India
- ACCORD Community Health Insurance: Increasing Access to Hospital Care
- Community Health Insurance in India – An overview
- Community health insurance in India: a compilation of case studies
- Iatrogenic poverty
- Health financing by the people
- A conditional cash assistance programme for promoting institutional deliveries among the poor in India: process evaluation results
- Community health insurance contributes to universal health coverage in India
- A handbook on health insurance: for practitioners, policy makers and trainers
- A conditional cash assistance programme for promoting institutional deliveries among the poor in India: process evaluation results
- Financing health care for inclusion
Universal Health Coverage

Developing UHC Indicators

Monitoring UHC In India
Ongoing Project

AggrieVoice Project
Health Financing
Strategic Purchasing

Costing of RSBY Package

Costing of NHAP-4

Costing of VAS
Other Health Financing
People

N Devadasan
Cluster lead

Vamsi Krishna
Co-lead