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Table 7 Summary Outcome

From: Health financing strategies to reduce out-of-pocket burden in India: a comparative study of three states

Sl. No.

Issues

TN

RAJ

WB

1

Increase in public sector hospitalization

I

Y

N

1.1

Increase in public sector hospitalization in the rural sector

Y

Y

N

1.2

Increase in public sector hospitalization in the urban sector

N

N

N

2

Utilization of public facility become more pro-poor

Y

Y

N

2.1

Utilization of public facility become more pro-poor in the rural sector

Y

Y

I

2.2

Utilization of public facility become more pro-poor in the urban sector

Y

N

N

3

Medical expenditure has increased in the public sector

N

N

Y

4

Medical expenditure has increased in the private sector

Y

Y

Y

5

Medicine expenditure has increased in the public sector

Y

N

Y

6

Medicine expenditure has increased in the private sector

Y

Y

Y

7

Pro-poor OOP medicine expenditure in the public sector

Y

Y

N

8

Pro-poor OOP medicine expenditure in the private sector

N

Y

N

9

Pro-poor OOP medicine expenditure in the rural public hospital

N

Y

N

10

Pro-poor OOP medicine expenditure in the urban public hospital

Y

Y

N

11

Subsidy distribution has turn out to be more pro-poor

Y

Y

Y*

11.1

Subsidy distribution has turn out to be more pro-poor in the rural sector

Y

Y

N

11.2

Subsidy distribution has turn out to be more pro-poor in the urban sector

Y

Y

N

  1. Note: I: remain almost same, Y – Yes & N – No. * it might be surprising that the combined subsidy distribution for WB is pro-poor; however, separate subsidy distribution of the rural and urban sector is not pro-poor. Basically, all the changes are extremely marginal, and it is really very difficult to comment on the move towards or away from pro-poorness after comparing the subsidy amounts only. To get clear picture of the pro-poorness (or richness) of the subsidy distribution, we have calculated the concentration indices of the subsidy distribution and reported in see Additional file 2: Table A4