Abstract: Health care is an important issue that attract the attention of the policy makers and the government. Developed countries spend lot on health care in comparison to developing economies. Health care has been taken as both consumer and capital goods. In this paper we have made an attempt to find the various determinants of health care expenditure .The study has been made by taking the help of both primary and secondary data in the study area to find out the determinants that affect the health care expenditure. The study shows there are number of factors that determine the health care expenditure. Among these determinants, income, age of the respondents, health insurance.............
Key Words:Health care, Health Insurance, Hospitals, Dispensary
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