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Primary Health Care & Insurance based schemes in India

India account for 1% of total GDP expenditure on health care services which is lower than Global average expenditure of 6 %. Also  one of the nation with highest pocket out of expenditure on health care services and the availability of doctors and bed is alarming with 8/1000 person. Various programmes by government of India focuses on providing accessible and affordable Healthcare to its citizen are :- 1. National Rural Health Mission(NRHM) 2. National Urban Health Mission(NUHM) 3. AAYUSH mission 4. Ayushman Bharat etc. Strengthening the reach of Primary Health Care(PHC) to Citizen will help in *  Reducing poverty and sustainable development. *  Mortality rate such as maternal mortality ,child mortality *  Increasing national income and percentage share to GDP *  Boost the ranking of India in various indexes such as GII, HDI * Achieving sustainable development goals(SDG) and fulfilling the objective of DPSP. Insurance based schemes along with public private partnership (PP