Ram, Krishna.  <br/><br/>
An assessment of out-of-pocket health expenditure and its impact on poverty estimates across caste, class, religion and states in India since early 1990s 

 - Man & Development   
 - 41(4), Dec, 2019: p.51-76 
<br/><br/> According to this paper there is a positive relationship between income and out-of packet (OOP) health expenditure. Heavy reliance of households belonging to schedule caste (SC) category on costly unregulated private health care service has major implications on their impoverishment and dept of poverty. Reproduced  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ayushman Bharat Yojna, Discrimination, Impoverishment, Out-of-pocket health expenditure, Poverty, Concentration index