Subject(s): Medical care in India. -- Medical care in India in Finance. -- Public health in India. -- Methodology of benefit incidence and data sources : Benefit incidence analysis, health data from national sample survey, government expenditures and facility costing- data sources, poverty line, expenditure quintiles, scheduled castes and tribes- data sources and methods -- Utilization of health care : Utilization of impatient services for curative care not related to childbirth, outpatient visits, immunizations, inpatient days related to childbirth, antenatal and post natal care -- Gross and net costs of health care services : Unit cost estimates from facility costing studies, unit cost estimates from aggregate government health expenditure data and NSS utilization data, user change -- Allocation of public health subsidies by socio economic category : Results from facility cost method, results from government budget data methods