Subject(s): Medical economics -- Medical care -- Finance -- Delivery of Health Care -- Health Care Costs -- Health financing research in India, health financing in India, public expenditure, medical care at birth and infant mortality- comparative study of states in India, planning process and government health expenditure patterns in India in early 1980s, public financing of family welfare program in India, adequacy, equity and efficiency of public expenditures on nutrition in India, private health care sector in India, health sector development and financing in Pakistan and some comparisons with India, hospital costs and financing in Maharashtra, concepts and practices in health care insurance schemes and recent examples in India, use of spending on curative health care in tribal block of Madhya Pradesh, community and self financing voluntary health programs in india