Expenditure on Public Health in Andhra Pradesh (An Index of Human Resource Development)

Abstract : It is recognized that health status is related to and determined by numerous factors-Per-capita income, way of life, marital status, housing, sanitation, water supply, infrastructure, social organization, structure of the economy, nutrition, education, health services provided by the government, political and administrative set-up, geography, climate, religious beliefs etc. However, (1) the per capita income (2) expenditure on public health (3) the number of hospitals and (4) the bed strength per million populations in the hospitals are selected in this study to analyze the health status of the people in Andhra Pradesh. In the light of these objectives the data relating to the health indicators are collected from official source for the period from 1986-87 to 1999-2002.The movements in these health indicators stated are examined by fitting a trend equation Yt= a + bt for each of these three indicators during 1986-2002.