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India is a large, overpopulated, developing country. Its population is approximately 800 million. Of this population, about 70070 is rural-based, 48% is illiterate and 30% is below the poverty line (DGHS 1991). A per capita income of approximately US$ 360 categorises India as a low income economy (World Bank 1993). Health care availability in India is grossly inadequate, with only 0.74 beds and per capita government expenditure on health only US$ 2 per thousand population (DGHS 1991). Sixteen per cent of the world’s population lives in India, but health expenditure for this population is only 1 % of the world’s total. Disability-adjusted life years lost in India, 344 per thousand population, is the highest among all the regions of the world except Sub-Saharan Africa, indicating a high burden of disease (World Bank 1993).
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Saxena, S. (1994). Quality of Life Assessment in Cancer Patients in India: Cross-Cultural Issues. In: Orley, J., Kuyken, W. (eds) Quality of Life Assessment: International Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79123-9_8
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