HEALTH CARE FINANCING TRANSITION IN NEPAL Khem Raj Subedi * Associate Professor Far western University of Nepal Abstract This article highlights the important components of Nepalese healthcare financing and aims at examining the health care financing system in Nepal in terms of share of government health care expenditure per capita, household out-of-pocket expenditure, and ratio of total health care expenditure to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The recent data shows that Government of Nepal allocates meagre 1.11 percent of GDP from government coffer for health care financing where out-of-pocket payment is 3.47percent of GDP and it is about 60 percent of total health care expenditure. It implies that people are heavily dependent on their own source for health care financing. Public Health Expenditure as a percent of Total Health Expenditure is 40 percent. Public E...
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