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SHA-Based Health Accounts in the AsiaPacific Region India

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After independence India adopted a welfare approach aimed at promoting the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens. The Indian state assumed responsibility for providing health, basic education, designing social security programmes and creating a favorable atmosphere for a just society. In this context the state’s role was to develop the health care system, including determining the priorities in financing and service delivery to its citizens. Over the years the country has designed national health policies and introduced several measures to strengthen the public health care system. These efforts have led to changes in the health conditions of the population. Small pox, malaria and cholera which were rampant and caused severe morbidity have been controlled to a large extent. The maternal and child mortality rates have been reduced. For example infant mortality rate has come down to 53 in 2008 from 80 in 1990 and the maternal mortality rate has fallen from 570 in 1990 to 230 in 20081 . The life expectancy which was less than 32 years in 1946 has almost doubled to 63.52 years in 2002-2006...

SHA-Based Health Accounts in the AsiaPacific Region Federated States of Micronesia SHA-Based Health Accounts in the AsiaPacific Region China 1990-2009
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