Estimating the costs of blindness and moderate to severe visual impairment among people with diabetes in India by Redding, S, Anderson, R, Raman, R, Sivaprasad, S, Wittenberg, R

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> It is estimated that for people with diabetes aged 40 years or above, annual screening followed by eye examination where required would cost around 42.3 billion Indian rupees (INR) (4230 crores) per year; treating sight problems around 2.87 billion INR (287 crores) per year if 20% of those needing treatment receive it; and lost economic activity around 472 billion INR (47 200 crores). …”

Cost of implementing the QualityRights programme in public hospitals in Gujarat providing mental healthcare by Susmita Chatterjee, Soumitra Pathare, Michelle Funk, Natalie Drew-Bold, Palash Das, Ajay Chauhan, Jasmine Kalha, Sadhvi Krishnamoorthy, Jaime C Sapag, Sireesha J Bobbili, Sandip Shah, Ritambhara Mehta, Animesh Patel, Upendra Gandhi, Mahesh Tilwani, Rakesh Shah, Hitesh Sheth, Ganpat Vankar, Minakshi Parikh, Indravadan Parikh, Thara Rangaswamy, Amritkumar Bakshy, Akwatu Khenti

“…Results: Total costs of implementing the QualityRights intervention varied from Indian Rupees (₹) 0.59 million to ₹ 2.59 million [1United States Dollars (US $) = ₹ 74.132] across six intervention sites at 2020 prices with 69-79 per cent of the cost being time cost. …”
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Role of publicly funded health insurance in financial protection of the elderly from hospitalisation expenditure in India-findings from the longitudinal aging study by Samir Garg, Kirtti Kumar Bebarta, Narayan Tripathi

“…The mean OOPE for a hospitalisation in public sector was Indian Rupees (INR) 8276, whereas it was INR 49,700 in private facilities. …”
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Out-of-pocket expenditure for the diagnosis of cervical, breast, and oral cavity cancer: A cross-sectional study from a tertiary care hospital in South India by Shahana Singh, Mahalakshmy Thulasingam, Bharathnag Nagappa, Chitrita Singh, Vishnu Rajan, Gunaseelan Karunanithi

“…Results: The median (first quartile [Q1] and third quartile [Q3]) cost incurred while diagnosing the three cancers was Indian rupees (INRs) 3660 (1280, 12,660); the median (Q1, Q3) direct cost was INR 1710 (350, 10,930) and the median (Q1, Q3) indirect cost was INR 250 (0, 2000). …”
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Evaluating a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme in a Maternal Health Care Utilization Program Among Rural Pregnant Women in Mysore District, India by Sandra Kiplagat, Makella S. Coudray, Kavitha Ravi, Poornima Jayakrishna, Karl Krupp, Anjali Arun, Purnima Madhivanan

“…1.80), having income ?4,000 Indian Rupees (AOR: 1.47; 95% CI: 1.04?2.09), rare visits (once in 3 months visit) with Accredited Social Health Activists (AOR: 3.55; 95% CI: 1.55?…”
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Prevalence and predictors of undernutrition among children under two years in Narmada District, Gujarat State, Western India: a community-based cross-sectional study by Ritu Rana

“…Household income >10000 Indian Rupees-INR (OR: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.4, 0.90), maternal stature ≥145 cm (OR: 0.43, 95% CI: 0.21, 0.86) and child age 0-6 months (OR: 1.61, 95% CI: 1.00-2.56) were significantly associated with wasting. …”
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The economic impact of a COVID-19 illness from the perspective of families seeking care in a private hospital in India by Tarun K. George, Parth Sharma, Melvin Joy, Guna Seelan, Abirami Sekar, Karthik Gunasekaran, Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Abhilash, Tina George, Sudha Jasmine Rajan, Samuel George Hansdak

“…The study reaffirms the need for collaborative and sustainable health financing systems to protect populations from hardships.$-US Dollar; ₹- Indian Rupees…”
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Costs incurred by patients with tuberculosis co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus in Bhavnagar, western India: a sequential explanatory mixed-methods research by Mihir P. Rupani, Sheetal Vyas

“…Costs were estimated in Indian rupees (INR) and expressed as median (interquartile range IQR). …”
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Tuberculosis Monitoring Encouragement Adherence Drive (TMEAD): Toward improving the adherence of the patients with drug-sensitive tuberculosis in Nashik, Maharashtra by Somen Saha, Somen Saha, Deepak Saxena, Deepak Saxena, Devang Raval, Nishad Halkarni, Rahul Doshi, Madhav Joshi, Mridhula Sridharan, Jignasa Sathwara, Sandul Yasobant, Sandul Yasobant, Harsh Shah, Zahiruddin Syed Quazi, Kavitha Rajsekar, Jayeeta Chowdhury

“…Per beneficiary (discounted) cost for TMEAD was Indian rupees (INR) 6,573 (USD 83). The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of the intervention is INR 11,599 (USD 146), which shows that the intervention is highly cost-effective.ConclusionThis study revealed that patient-reported treatment adherence was high in TMEAD when compared to standard therapy of care for DSTB patients and the intervention is cost-effective. …”
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Self-medication prevalence and associated factors among adult population in Northern India: A community-based cross-sectional study by Khushboo Juneja, Ambren Chauhan, Tuhina Shree, Priyanka Roy, Mainak Bardhan, Absar Ahmad, Amit Singh Pawaiya, Ayush Anand

“…Also, participants whose income was 30,000 Indian rupees (adjusted odds ratio: 3.21, 95% confidence interval: 1.00–10.21) were more likely to self-medicate than those whose income was less than 4000. …”
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Variation in Cost Among Anticancer Drugs Available in India: A Cross-sectional Study by Ramanand Janardhanrao Patil, Prasan Ramchandra Bhandari, Sanjay Dashrath Gaiwale, Vivek Jawahar Dugad, Santosh Baburao Jagtap

“…The cost of one tablet, capsule, or injection was calculated in Indian Rupees (INR). The cost of a single unit was compared, and the difference between the maximum and minimum costs was calculated. …”
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Refining the provider payment system of India’s government-funded health insurance programme: an econometric analysis by Shankar Prinja, Maninder Pal Singh, Lorna Guinness, Pankaj Bahuguna, Aarti Goyal, Vipul Aggarwal

“…Given the skewed data, cost variables were log-transformed for some models.Results The estimated mean costs per inpatient bed-day and per procedure were 2307 and 10 686 Indian rupees, respectively. Teaching status, annual hospitalisation, bed size, location of hospital and average length of hospitalisation significantly determine the inpatient bed-day cost, while location of hospital and teaching status determine the procedure costs. …”
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