Rohit Goja
Srinagar July 24: Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing incremental improvement and the study under the WHO in this regard suggests that much has been done in the way of improving key indicators of health system performance.
“Though no systematic assessment regarding the reason for such improvement is available, a study conducted by WHO India, in 2022, showed an increasing budget envelope for the health department in Jammu and Kashmir between 2016 and 2020, though utilization remained low,” it reads.
“Large is defined using two thresholds: first greater than 10 percent of the household budget and secondly greater than 25 percent of the household budget,” it reads.
The study further states that “As for another SDG, the report states that the decentralized data for India was not available vis-à-vis catastrophic health expenditure thus out-pocket-expenditure (OOPE) as a share of total health expenditure was used as a proxy.”
“Though it is usually recommended that OOPE as a share of current health expenditure be used, owing to the multi-year attribution issue inherent in capital expenditure, this could not be teased out at the sub-national level for this assessment,” reads the study.
It also said that though data for current health expenditure at a sub-national level is available with the health accounts country team at the Ministry, it is not shared publicly and thus, was not used for this assessment.
“The data based on OOPE was sourced from the various rounds of National Health Accounts conducted in the country, which also provide state and UT level insight on key financing indicators for select geographic regions,” it reads.
