Designing and Costing of an Adaptable and Flexible Essential Health Package (EHP) for Indian States

This document develops a framework for an Essential Health Package comprising 34 health categories. It provides detailed care pathways and associated costs and path-dependent conditional probabilities for Anaemia, Cardio Vascular Disease, Diabetes, and Tuberculosis. Using the frameworks developed here designers of health systems can provide detailed pathways and estimate resource requirements for all the elements of the Essential Health Package.