Hospital Management

Chapter 2

Health Sector in India

CHAPTER OUTLINE

2.1 An Introduction

2.2 Health Financing

2.3 Health Infrastructure

2.4 Human Resources in Health

2.5 Role of Hospitals in the Health Sector

2.6 Summary

Questions

References

CHAPTER OBJECTIVE

The main objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the health sector in India and to bring out the critical role of hospitals in the delivery of health services. India needs to add 1 million physicians, 2 million nurses and 3 million hospital beds to achieve the world average of 1.7 physicians, 3.3 nurses and 3.6 beds per 1,000 people.

2.1 AN INTRODUCTION

Our National Population Policy 2000¹ and the National Health Policy 2002² are the two important policy documents of the Indian health ...