Background Financial risk protection (FRP), defined as households' access to needed
healthcare services without experiencing undue financial hardship, is a critical health …

Objectives The present study aimed to examine the association of multimorbidity status with
food insecurity among disadvantaged groups such as Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled …

India is experiencing rapid population ageing in recent years. One of the most concomitant
issues is the choice of health care services among the elderly, leading to its impact on the …

Introduction The escalating burden of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) poses a
significant threat to individuals and households in India, where out-of-pocket expenditure …

This study aims to investigate the determinants of outpatient healthcare selection. The
present research utilised data from the first wave of the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India …

Background The elderly population in India is expanding fast, which indicates a growing
share of people with more specialized needs for health and support. One of the prominent …

Reductions in infant, child and maternal mortality rates, lengthening of life expectancy and
decrease in fertility rates during the second half of the twentieth century have resulted in the …

As India is experiencing both the epidemiological and demographic transition, the grey
population is expected to incur huge expenditure on health care, especially hospitalization …

Health economics has long been neglected as a subset of the larger discipline of Economics
and Finance. However, this could not be further from the truth. There is a large body of …

India is presently undergoing a rapid demographic transition and experiencing a gradual
increase in an ageing population. As a result, the households were continuously exposed to …