PMID- 32816632 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211101 LR - 20211101 IS - 1744-1706 (Electronic) IS - 1744-1692 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 4 DP - 2021 Apr TI - Road to family planning and RMNCHN related SDGs: Tracing the role of public health spending in India. PG - 546-562 LID - 10.1080/17441692.2020.1809692 [doi] AB - Globally, public health expenditure (PHE) is closely associated with Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Nutrition (RMNCHN) and Family Planning (FP) outcomes. In India, the role of PHE in shaping the progress towards the attainment of RMNCHN and FP-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not widely documented. Using the four consecutive rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS), we have investigated the progress in RMNCHN and FP indicators and their association with PHE by applying robust econometric modelling. The findings suggest that although there is noticeable progress in the RMNCHN indicators from 1992-93-2015-16, India has failed to achieve RMNCHN targets related to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Lack of noteworthy correlation between FP indicators and PHE supports the argument that post National Rural Health Mission (2005), the core family welfare expenditure suffered a setback despite the absolute rise in PHE. However, correlation plots and the multivariate panel data regression analyses affirm that even with a moderate rise, PHE emerges as an important predictor of RMNCHN outcomes in the country. Thus, the road to achieving RMNCHN and FP-related SDGs demands to avoid austerity on PHE and strengthen the integration of RMNCHN and FP programmes at the operational level. FAU - Goli, Srinivas AU - Goli S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8481-484X AD - Australia India Institute (AII) NGN Research Fellow, UWA Public Policy Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. AD - Population Studies, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Room No. 102, School of Social Sciences (SSS-3), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. FAU - Moradhvaj AU - Moradhvaj AD - Population Studies, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. FAU - James, K S AU - James KS AD - Director & Sr. Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. FAU - Singh, Devender AU - Singh D AD - National Program Officer (Population & Development), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New Delhi, India. FAU - Srinivasan, Venkatesh AU - Srinivasan V AD - Assistant Representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New Delhi, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200820 PL - England TA - Glob Public Health JT - Global public health JID - 101256323 SB - IM MH - Child MH - Child Health MH - Family Planning Services MH - Humans MH - India MH - Infant, Newborn MH - *Public Health MH - *Sustainable Development OTO - NOTNLM OT - India OT - Public health financing OT - family planning OT - maternal and child health OT - nutrition OT - reproductive EDAT- 2020/08/21 06:00 MHDA- 2021/11/03 06:00 CRDT- 2020/08/21 06:00 PHST- 2020/08/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/11/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/21 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/17441692.2020.1809692 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Glob Public Health. 2021 Apr;16(4):546-562. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1809692. Epub 2020 Aug 20.