<div style="font-size: 13px;"> <p>In 2018, the Government of India announced Ayushman Bharat, a flagship initiative for delivery of healthcare services to India’s poor. Ayushman Bharat consists of two major components - the National Health Protection scheme or PMJAY (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) and Health and Wellness Centers.&nbsp;</p> <p>The National Health Protection Scheme or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (PM-JAY) is planned as the world’s largest health insurance scheme covering approximately 500 million poor and vulnerable people - about 40% of India’s population. Critical to the success of PM-JAY, however, is the previous experience of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), a social health Insurance scheme based on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) framework that covered below poverty line families.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>This book is based on a study of the RSBY aimed at understanding the provision, availability and use of health services under Public-Private Partnership contracts and the factors that influence such services.&nbsp; It intends to share with policy-makers several insights from RSBY that may be useful for other health care schemes for the poor and vulnerable.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>With the current focus on Universal Health Care as its backdrop, the book focuses on contract design and looks at the incentive structures created by division of roles, responsibilities and relationships within the contracts. It also examines the regulatory and political environment, and the institutional capacity to deliver quality services.&nbsp;</p> <p>In doing so it compares the provision of healthcare services across public and private providers for the insured and uninsured beneficiaries. This is done to understand the accessibility, availability and utilisation patterns of health care services for those below the poverty line.</p> </div>