How Swasth India Is Making A Revolution In Health Innovation Market By Promoting Health Equity
In India, approximately 80 million people live in urban areas on incomes that are below the poverty line and in Mumbai, 54% live in urban slums with inadequate access to clean water, sanitation and health facilities. They say, sickness is a great equalizer; it hits the poor and the rich uniformly, but the poor are disproportionately affected by health inequities. According to WHO estimates in 2010, approximately 71% of all spending in health care was private, but about 86% of this spending was out of pocket, which risks pushing the poor further into poverty.
Ambily Adithyan
