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Health Insurance Benefit Packages Prioritized by Low-Income Clients in India: Three Criteria to Estimate Effectiveness of Choice

Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2007

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Sep 2007

David M. Dror, Ruth Koren, Alexander Ost, Erika Binnendijk, Sukumar Vellakkal and Marion Danis

Micro Insurance Academy (MIA), Tel Aviv University - Professor Sackler Faculty of Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), IIT Kanpur and Head Section on Ethics and Health Policy

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Eliciting Health Insurance Benefit Choices of Low Income Groups

Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), Vol. 42, No. 32, pp. 3331-3339, August 11-17, 2007

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 01 May 2008

Marion Danis, Erika Binnendijk, Sukumar Vellakkal, Alexander Ost, Ruth Koren and David M. Dror

Head Section on Ethics and Health Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), IIT Kanpur, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Tel Aviv University - Professor Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Micro Insurance Academy (MIA)

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Healthcare Delivery and Stakeholder’s Satisfaction Under Social Health Insurance Schemes in India: An Evaluation of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) and Exservicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS)

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 May 2012

Sukumar Vellakkal, Shikha Juyal and Ali Mehdi

IIT Kanpur, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

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The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6324

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Arnab K. Acharya, Sukumar Vellakkal, Fiona Taylor, Edoardo Massett, Ambika Satija, Margaret Burke and Shah Ebrahim

O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), IIT Kanpur, Independent, University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies, Independent, University of Bristol and Public Health Foundation of India

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The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

The World Bank Research Observer, 28 February 2012 doi: 10.1093/wbro/lks009

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 May 2013

Arnab K. Acharya, Sukumar Vellakkal, Fiona Taylor, Edoardo Massett, Ambika Satija, Margaret Burke and Shah Ebrahim

O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), IIT Kanpur, Independent, University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies, Independent, University of Bristol and Public Health Foundation of India

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Adverse Selection and Private Health Insurance Coverage in India - A Rational Behaviour Model of Insurance Agents Under Asymmetric Information

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations Working Paper No. 233

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 May 2012

Sukumar Vellakkal

IIT Kanpur

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Determinants of Enrolment in Voluntary Health Insurance: Evidences from a Mixed Method Study, Kerala, India

Vellakkal S (2013). Determinants of Enrolment in Voluntary Health Insurance: Evidences from a Mixed Method Study, Kerala, India. International Journal of Financial Research, Vol. 4, No. 2; 2013, doi:10.5430/ijfr.v4n2p99

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Apr 2013

Sukumar Vellakkal

IIT Kanpur

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Publicly-Financed Health Insurance Schemes: Concerns about Impact Assessment

Economic & Political Weekly, January 5, 2013, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 10 Jan 2013

Sukumar Vellakkal and Shah Ebrahim

IIT Kanpur and Public Health Foundation of India

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Impact of Private Health Insurance on Lengths of Hospitalization and Healthcare Expenditure in India: Evidences from a Quasi-Experiment Study

Indian Journal of Economics & Development 1.1 (2013)

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 11 Apr 2013

Sukumar Vellakkal

IIT Kanpur

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Is RSBY India's Platform to Implementing Universal Hospital Insurance?

Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 135, pp. 56-63, January 2012

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 11 Mar 2012

David M. Dror and Sukumar Vellakkal

Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) and IIT Kanpur

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Financial Protection in Health Insurance Schemes: A Comparative Analysis of Mediclaim Policy and Chat Scheme in India

Journal of Health Management, pp. 13-25, 2012, (doi: 10.1177/097206341101400102)

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 May 2012

Sukumar Vellakkal

IIT Kanpur

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Inequalities in Adolescent Learning: Does the Timing and Persistence of Food Insecurity at Home Matter?

University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 09/WP/2018

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Apr 2018

Elisabetta Aurino, Jasmine Fledderjohann and Sukumar Vellakkal

Imperial College London, University of Oxford and IIT Kanpur

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Dietary Salt Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease Rates in India: A Mathematical Model

Basu S, Stuckler D, Vellakkal S, Ebrahim S (2012). Dietary Salt Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease Rates in India: A Mathematical Model. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44037. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044037

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2013

Sanjay Basu, David Stuckler, Sukumar Vellakkal and Shah Ebrahim

Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and Center for Population Health Sciences, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, IIT Kanpur and Public Health Foundation of India

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Has India's National Rural Health Mission Reduced Inequities in Maternal Health Services? A Pre-Post Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

Health Policy and Planning, czw100

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Nov 2016

Sukumar Vellakkal, Adyya Gupta, Zaky Khan, David Stuckler, Aaron Reeves, Shah Ebrahim, Ann Bowling and Pat Doyle

IIT Kanpur, University of Adelaide - School of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Oxford University, University of Oxford, Public Health Foundation of India, University of Southampton and LSHTM

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Food Price Spikes are Associated with Increased Malnutrition Among Children in Andhra Pradesh, India

Sukumar Vellakkal, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Sanjay Basu, Sutapa Agrawal, Shah Ebrahim, Oona Campbell, Pat Doyle, David Stuckler (2015). Food Price Spikes Are Associated with Increased Malnutrition among Children in Andhra Pradesh, India. The Journal of Nutrition 145 (8), 1942-1949

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 23 Oct 2015

Sukumar Vellakkal, Jasmine Fledderjohann, Sanjay Basu, Sutapa Agrawal, Shah Ebrahim, Oona Campbell, Pat Doyle and David Stuckler

IIT Kanpur, University of Oxford, Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and Center for Population Health Sciences, Public Health Foundation of India, Public Health Foundation of India, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, LSHTM and Oxford University

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Are Estimates of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Disease Artefactually Narrowed by Self-Reported Measures of Prevalence in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries? Findings from the WHO-SAGE Survey

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 May 2015

Sukumar Vellakkal, Christopher Millett, Sanjay Basu, Zaky Khan, Amina Aitsi-Selmi, David Stuckler and Shah Ebrahim

IIT Kanpur, Imperial College London - Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and Center for Population Health Sciences, Public Health Foundation of India, University College London - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science and Public Health Foundation of India

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Designing Psychological Treatments for Scalability: The PREMIUM Approach

Vellakkal S, Patel V (2015) Designing Psychological Treatments for Scalability: The PREMIUM Approach. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0134189. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134189

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Oct 2015

Sukumar Vellakkal and Vikram Patel

IIT Kanpur and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India Through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study

Basu, Sanjay , Vellakkal, Sukumar , Agrawal, Sutapa, Stuckler, David, Popkin, Barry M. and Ebrahim, Shah , Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India Through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study, PLOS Medicine, January 2014

Posted: 06 Mar 2014

Sanjay Basu, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sutapa Agrawal, David Stuckler, Barry M. Popkin and Shah Ebrahim

Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and Center for Population Health Sciences, IIT Kanpur, Public Health Foundation of India, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Carolina Population Center and Public Health Foundation of India

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Palm Oil Taxes and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in India: Economic-Epidemiologic Model

Basu, Sanjay , Singer Babiarz, Kimberly, Ebrahim, Shah , Vellakkal, Sukumar , Stuckler, David and Goldhaber-Fiebert, Jeremy, Palm oil taxes and cardiovascular disease mortality in India: economic-epidemiologic model. British Medical Journal 2013; 347

Posted: 06 Mar 2014

Sanjay Basu, Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Shah Ebrahim, Sukumar Vellakkal, David Stuckler and Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University, Public Health Foundation of India, IIT Kanpur, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science and Stanford University - Department of Medicine

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Non-Communicable Diseases Prevalence in India: Disparities between Self-Reported Diagnoses and Standardized Measures

PLoS ONE 8(7)

Posted: 21 Jul 2013

Sukumar Vellakkal, S. V. Subramanian, Christopher Millett, Sanjay Basu, David Stuckler and Shah Ebrahim

IIT Kanpur, Harvard University - Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Imperial College London - Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, Stanford University - Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and Center for Population Health Sciences, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science and Public Health Foundation of India

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