The Survey takes note of the National Health Policy 2017 which recommended increasing State sector health spending to more than 8 per cent of the States' Government Budget by 2020. It also takes note of the Report 'India: Health of Nation's States' 2017', which provides the first comprehensive set of findings for the distribution of diseases and risk factors across all States from 1990 to 2016. The concept of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) has been developed to provide a framework for analysing the disease burden and risk factors. The Survey advocates there is a need to understand the efficiency of public spending with respect to DALYs behaviour across the major States and to assess whether high-spending by States on health results in better health outcomes.
The Survey notes that there has been significant improvement in the health status of individuals in India as life expectancy at birth has increased by 10 years during the period 1990 to 2015. The Survey, however, notes with concern that there are wide differences in the average prices of diagnostic tests across cities which need to be addressed by standardising rates to reduce Out of Pocket Expenses (OPE) on health services.
According to the Survey, the National Health Policy 2017 will help in strengthening health delivery systems and in achieving universal health coverage.
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