Abstract
Introduction: Private sector is the largest provider of health care services in India. But it is expensive. Self-driven corporate social responsibility (CSR) providing free or subsidised services will be useful to the elderly. There are no published data reporting the pattern or types of health care services provided to elderly by the private health care sector of India through CSR initiative. So this study was undertaken. Objectives: To know the pattern (Subsidised/free) and type (Medical, Surgical etc.,) of Health care services received by the elderly people as a part of CSR. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire based cross-sectional study conducted among all private health care providers of Mangalore city. List of all private health care providers which included various types of hospitals (corporate hospitals, multispecialty hospitals etc...) were obtained from the local chapter of Indian Medical Association. The data was collected form hospitals fulfi lling the study criteria. The data was analysed using SPSS software for windows, version 16.0. Results are presented as frequencies and proportions in appropriate tables. Results: Totally 24 hospitals had participated in this study. Most (n = 16, 66.7%) reported providing some free or subsidised services. Among them only 7 (29.2%) were providing free services like: Health check-up camps, subsidised medical and surgical treatment. However most of them did not respond to the “criteria for selecting of the elderly for such free services.” Conclusion: Most of the private hospitals in Mangalore do not provide free or subsidised health care services to the elderly through a self-driven CSR initiative.
Highlights
It has been projected that the population of elderly (60+) in India will increase from 100 million in 2013 to 198 million by 2030.[1]
To know the pattern (Subsidised/free) and type (Medical, Surgical etc.,) of Health care services received by the elderly people as a part of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
24 hospitals participated in this study whose characteristics are as follows (n, [%]): MSH (8, [33.3]), nursing homes (NHs) (7, [29.2]), others (6, [25.0]), hospital attached to private medical institution (HAPMI) (3, [12.5])
Summary
It has been projected that the population of elderly (60+) in India will increase from 100 million in 2013 to 198 million by 2030.[1]. Private health care sector is the largest provider of health care in India.[2] As per the World Bank report of 2012; the out of pocket health expenditure in India was 57.6% of the total expenditure.[3] Elderly people have financial constraints for one or more of the obvious reasons like: Retirement, loss of job, disability preventing them from earning, lack of family support etc. This vulnerability may prevent them from accessing health care services or delay in seeking health care. The world business council for sustainable development has defined corporate social responsibility (CSR) as: “The continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic social development while
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