Kim Nguyen and her psychiatrist agreed she needed more care for her eating disorder. “We’re not equipped to meet the demand.” In part, that’s because providers have long failed to recognize eating disorders in nonwhite teenagers — those most likely to use Medi-Cal — until they’re gravely ill. “It took me until I was really deep into partial hospitalization to …
This article examines whether health policy interventions and accelerated health investments in India during 2004-2018 could close the gap in inequity in health care utilisation and access to public subsidy by different population groups. Employing Benefit-Incidence Analysis framework, this paper advances earlier evidence by highlighting estimates of health care utilisation, concentration and government subsidy by broader provider categories and across …
