National Health Policy

NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY

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Introduction

·       It was formulated in 1983 by the “Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare”

·       It was made to attain the objective of “Health for all by 2000 AD”

·       Latently revised in 2017 by the Central government

 

Key Elements of NHP 1983

·       Awareness of health problems in the community and means to solve the problem by the community

·       Supply of safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities to the public

·       Concentrating more on rural health infrastructure to reduce the imbalance of healthcare services

·       Establishing the dynamic health management information system

·       Compulsion of legislative support to health protection and promotion

·       Serious actions to combat the widespread malnutrition

·       Research in alternative methods of healthcare delivery

·       Availability of latest technologies at low cost

·       Coordination of different medicine systems

 

Key Elements of NHP 2017

·       Digital interventions for nation’s health

o   Promotion of Tele-consultation

o   Digital library & National knowledge network for Tele-education

·       Fostering patient focus, quality and assurance based approach

o   Right of patients to access information

o   Separate empowered medical tribunal

·       Preventive and promotive focus with pluralistic choice

o   Creation of public health management

o   Counselling at all levels

o   Interventions from early detection

·       Universal, easily, affordable primary healthcare

o   Comprehensive primary healthcare package

o   Health card to access for primary healthcare facilities

·       Better regulatory mechanism and quality control

o   Use of safety devices to ensure quality compliance and safety

o   Timely revision of essential medicines list

 

Factors Affecting NHP

·       Insufficient political commitment

·       Failure to achieve equity

·       Continuation in the perception of low status of women

·       Slow socio economic development

·       Unbalanced and weak support in terms of manpower

·       Inadequacy in health promotion activities

·       Unavailability of data baseline and HIS

·       Pollution & lack of water supply

·       Natural & manmade disaster

 

Current Statistics

·       Polio (eradicated)

·       Leprosy (0.72/10000)

·       HIV/AIDS (0.36%)

·       Tuberculosis (1.8/100000)

·       Malaria (28.8/100000)

·       IMR (42/1000)

·       MMR (178/100000)

 

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