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New Delhi: The share of government health expenditure (GHE) in Indias total gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 1.13 percent in 2014-15 to 1.84 percent in 2021-22, according to the latest National Health Accounts estimates released by the Union health ministry Wednesday...
The report also showed that the share of GHE in the countrys total health expenditure grew from 29 percent to 48 percent during the same period...
National Health Accounts estimates are a tool to describe health expenditures and the flow of funds in both the public and private sectors of the country...
Overall the estimates for 2021-22 showed that in terms of share in the general government expenditure (GGE), the governments spending on health has risen from 3.94 percent in 2014-15 to 6.12 percent in 2021-22...
Additionally, the estimates for 2021-22 show that households out-of-pocket expenditure on health (OOPE) stood at Rs 3,56,254 crores (39.4 percent of total health expenditure, or 1.51 percent of GDP), which came out to Rs 2,600 per capita...
