Tag Archives: India

Pathways to Universal Health Coverage: Lessons from Government-Sponsored and Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes in India

Resource Type: Brief Authors: The Health Finance and Governance Project Published: February 2017 Resource Description: India’s health sector continues to be challenged by overall low levels of public financing and disproportionate reliance on private resources. High out-of-pocket (OOP) spending by households, almost 60 percent of total health expenditure, restricts access to quality health care for many low-income families […]

Navigating the Health Financing Challenge in India: Lessons from Mutuals, Cooperatives, and Community-based Organizations

This brief examines a study on the relevance of diverse mutuals, cooperatives, and community-based organizations (MCCOs) in India’s health insurance landscape and identifies the factors that hinder their expansion as well as the strategies that can propel their growth. Lessons learned and the role MCCOs play in strengthening the country’s financial protection system are presented.

Presenting the Innovative Haryana Health GIS Solution at the 2017 ICT4D Conference

HFG India was invited to present at the ninth annual Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Conference on its innovative geographic information system (GIS) for improving the use of health data for decision-making. The annual conference brings together thought leaders from across the world to discuss and deliberate on technological innovations for the development sector. The […]

Haryana Health GIS: Leveraging Technology to Strengthen Evidence-based Decision Making in Public Health

This brief describes the partnership between the Government of Haryana and the HFG project to enhance the quality and use of data to improve the public health system’s practice and performance. The need is imperative for Haryana, which paradoxically continues to lag on child and maternal health indicators despite being a fast-growing, economically strong state […]

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Assessment Lays Groundwork for Support to Civil Society Organization Network in India

Recognizing the powerful potential of CSOs, and the capacity gaps that inhibit this potential, the HFG project has partnered with the White Ribbon Alliance of India (WRAI), a prominent countrywide network of grassroots CSOs engaged in FP advocacy. The project has helped develop a structured plan to provide capacity building support to CSOs, focusing on […]

Mutual Benefit, Shared Risk in India: Annapurna Pariwar’s Community-owned Health Mutual Insurance Program

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Annapurna Pariwar Published: March 2017 Resource Description: The HFG project is supporting the scale-up of health mutual schemes in India with the aim of expanding financial protection and access to health care. As part of its groundwork, HFG developed a case study on the health mutual run by Annapurna Pariwar, a […]

Data Quality Assessment Pilot Highlights Focus on Improving HMIS Data Quality and Use in India

Dr. Vishnu Kant Srivastava leads the Statistics Division at India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). Having managed statistical initiatives at different departments and levels of the government, Dr. Srivastava recognizes the value of quality data for effective decision making. He spoke with USAID’s Health Finance and Governance (HFG) project on the findings of […]

37th IASP Conference in India: Making a Case for Enhanced Health Information System Data Use

India’s Health Management Information System (HMIS) captures crucial data on the implementation and performance of key national health programs, especially those geared to the strategic reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCH+A) initiative of the Government of India. However, there have been concerns, based on anecdotal observations, about the quality of the HMIS data, […]

Conducting Haryana’s First State Level Health Accounts – Interview with Dr. Vikas Sharma

Interview with Dr. Vikas Sharma, Consultant – Public Health Planning, Haryana State Health Resource Centre. Dr. Vikas Sharma led the effort on Haryana state’s 2014/15 Health Accounts. Dr. Sharma found the state’s maiden Health Accounts exercise both exacting and exhilarating. We caught up with him at the dissemination event organized to share the Haryana Health […]

Improved Data Quality and Use: Dual Goals of HMIS Strengthening

Presentation during the HFG-led technical session at the 37th annual conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), in New Delhi, India in December 2016. Focusing on the potential utility of India’s Health Management Information System (HMIS) as a rich data resource and the role of regular assessments in ensuring data quality.

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