Health financing and planning are critical to advancing towards Universal Health Coverage, ensuring that resources are mobilized, allocated and utilized efficiently to meet the health needs of the population. Strategic financing promotes transparency and accountability in resource allocation and its use, while systematic planning enables focussed investments towards in preventive, promotive and curative services, strengthening health systems and enhancing service delivery.
At HSTP, we are committed to advance equitable access to healthcare through evidence-based planning and financing approaches in our intervention states. We develop investment cases to increase government healthcare spending, driven by efficient planning and financial management. Through detailed health budget analyses, we help identify priority intervention areas, reduce regional disparities, support the implementation of performance-based financing and develop costed long-term planning for delivering specialized services.
This study published in the BMC Health Services Research, investigates the financial burden of multimorbidity on Indian households. Considering the high out of pocket expenditure (OOPE) and catastrophic health expenditures associated among those seeking care for multimorbidity, the study emphasises the need for integrated national health policies that address multimorbidity, strengthen public healthcare access, expand financial protection especially for outpatient care and prioritize preventive care to ease the financial burden on vulnerable population.
Our latest study titled ‘Sedentary work and expanding waistlines: a cross-sectional study on occupational roles and abdominal obesity in India’, published in BMC Public Health, sheds light on the direct link between occupational roles and abdominal obesity, emphasizing the urgent need for workplace health interventions and policy action.
Forum for Health Systems Design and Transformation, more popularly known as Health Systems Transformation Platform (HSTP), a company licensed under section 8 of the Indian Companies Act, 2013 incorporated under the aegis of Tata Trusts.
