Per Capita Expenditure on Health

Per Capita Expenditure on Health

As per the 12th Five Year Plan document of Planning Commission, the projections for the Twelfth Plan envisage increasing total public funding by the Centre and States, plan and non-plan, on core health from 1.04 per- cent of GDP in 2011-12 to 1.87 per cent of GDP by the end of the Twelfth Plan. When viewed in the perspective of the broader health sector, the total Government expenditure as a proportion of GDP in the Twelfth Plan is likely to increase from 1.94 per cent of GDP in the last year of the Eleventh Plan to 3.04 per cent in the corresponding year of the Twelfth Plan. The Plan envisages substantial expansion and strengthening of the public health systems both in rural and urban areas, with robust provision of primary health care. Other focus areas include strengthening human resources in health, regulation in drugs and food system and developing Health information system. According to World Health Statistics 2012 published by World Health Organisation (WHO), the per capita total expenditure on health in 2009, for India is US$ 44 (at average exchange rate) as compared to total expenditure on health in respect of some select developing countries e.g. China : US$191, Bangladesh : US$ 21, Indonesia : US$ 56, Kenya : US$ 36, Pakistan : US$ 20 and Philippines : US $ 66. The above information was given by the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.