Analysis and Critique of household health expenditure studies are pertinent for India where two-third of all households can barely manage to sustain a two square-meal livelihood. In this connection the objectives of the book are to study the determinants of household health expenditures (HHE); to study the gender bias in HHE; and to make a comparative study of preferences for private health care and public health care provisions in Odisha. The study is fully based on primary data. The study found that (a) income has significant influence on HHE; (b) in HHE, there are gender biases in favour...