Leveraging human capital to reduce maternal mortality in India: enhanced public health system or public-private partnership?

Table 1 2005 expenditures on health for selected states of India

State	Overall spending per capita (USD)*¹	Public spending per capita (USD)¹	Infant mortality rate (2005)**²	Average life expectancy (2005)**²	Child mortality among 0–4 years (2005)**³
Himachal Pradesh	98.18	12.17	36	65	13.5%
Kerala	73.80	7.97	15	73.3	3.4%
Jammu & Kashmir	52.05	10.77	45	63	12.0%
Punjab	45.33	8.16	42	70.9	11.3%
Haryana	44.65	4.73	42	67	17.8%
Maharashtra	39.40	8.71	38	68.3	8.6%
Bihar	37.43	3.11	62	65.2	20.1%
Assam	33.68	5.99	66	59.9	19.7%
Madhya Pradesh	30.00	4.08	70	58.6	24.6%
West Bengal	29.70	5.14	48	67.7	10.0%
Gujarat	29.68	4.69	50	63.6	16.0%
Uttar Pradesh	28.80	3.74	73	63.8	24.7%
Andhra Pradesh	27.95	5.42	53	63.9	14.8%
Karnataka	24.93	5.78	43	64.4	13.1%
Tamil Nadu	23.33	6.20	31	68.4	9.0%

*1 USD = 40 INR, ** From
¹Economic Research Foundation. Government Health Expenditure in India: A Benchmark Study. August 2006 http://www.macroscan.org/anl/oct06/pdf/Health_Expenditure.pdf.
²State Level Tables. Human Development Report 2007. Andhra Pradesh http://www.aponline.gov.in/Apportal/HumanDevelopmentReport2007/APHDR_2007_AppendixII.pdf.
³ Government of India. India and State wise Child Mortality Rate (0–4 years) http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=38048.

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