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Performance Evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Kerala

Chaithanya U., Assistant Professor, NSS College, Nemmara, Palakkad, Kerala 678508, India. , Chaithanya U. , P. Vasanthakumari ,

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Journal of Social Welfare and Management 10(3 (Special Issue)):p 536-540, Sep-Dec 2018. | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/JSWM.0975.0231.10318.35

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 The Indian health insurance sector is one of the fast growing segments of Indian health care system. There were lots of health insurance products available to cover the needs of mass organized community and at the same time there were no single system to cover the health care needs of the mass unorganized community in India. In order to overcome this issue the Government of India has introduced a new scheme called Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in the year 2008 with the objective of providing financial protection against catastrophic health costs by reducing out of pocket expenditure for hospitalization. The scheme also provides better accessing to quality health care for below poverty line households and other vulnerable groups in the unorganized sector. In this context the present study has been conducted to know how far the new scheme could penetrates the health care system of Kerala.

 

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RSBY - Rashtriya Swasthya Bima YojanaBPL- Below Poverty LineWHO- World Health OrganizationCHIS- Comprehensive Health Insurance SchemeAGR- Annual Growth RateAAGR- Average Annual Growth Rate.

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