The document outlines India's national health policy. It notes that while India has made progress on health outcomes, gaps remain between states and communities. It analyzes India's disease burden, health system challenges, and the growth of private healthcare. The policy aims to improve health systems, promote universal access to quality care without financial hardship, and leverage partnerships across sectors to achieve health equity and inclusion. It establishes principles of equity, universality, patient-centered care, inclusive partnerships, pluralism, and subsidiarity to guide the health system transition.
The National Rural Health Mission aims to provide universal access to equitable, affordable, and quality healthcare in rural India. It was launched in 2005 to correct inequities in health systems and increase spending on healthcare. Key strategies include strengthening primary healthcare through community health workers called ASHAs, improving infrastructure like primary health centers and community health centers, implementing district-level health plans, and increasing involvement of local governments. The mission seeks to reduce mortality rates and expand access to services while integrating traditional medicine. It is monitored through strengthened health information systems and evaluations.
This document discusses various health insurance schemes in India. It begins by outlining the objectives and definitions related to health insurance. There are four main types of schemes: mandatory, employer-based, voluntary private schemes. The two largest mandatory schemes are the Employees' State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) and the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS). ESIS provides coverage to industrial workers through contributions from employers and employees. CGHS covers central government employees and their families through medical facilities. Issues with the schemes include low quality of care, lack of awareness, and poor rural penetration. The role of nurses includes educating people about the schemes and advocating for patients.
The document summarizes India's national health policies from 1978 onwards. It discusses the key goals and principles of the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care, including health as a fundamental right and reducing inequality. It outlines India's 1983 National Health Policy which aimed to provide primary health care and integrate related sectors. While some goals were achieved by 2000, many were not, prompting the 2002 National Health Policy to revise strategies and accelerate public health goals.
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The document discusses the organizational structure of healthcare delivery at the district level in India. The key points are:
1. The district health system is headed by the Chief Medical and Health Officer who oversees all health and family welfare programs. They are assisted by other program officers.
2. The district is divided into subdivisions, tehsils, community development blocks, municipalities, and villages. Healthcare services are provided at each level through various public health facilities.
3. In addition to the CMHO, other important officers include the District Tuberculosis Officer, District Malaria Officer, and District Leprosy Officer who are responsible for implementing specific disease control programs.
The National Health Policy of 2017 aims to improve health outcomes through coordinated policy action across sectors. It sets goals such as increasing life expectancy and reducing mortality rates. The policy emphasizes preventive healthcare, affordable universal access, and strengthening primary care. It proposes increasing health expenditure and improving infrastructure. The policy outlines strategies for improving national health programs addressing issues like RMNCH+A, immunization, communicable and non-communicable diseases. It focuses on reforms for healthcare financing, governance, and increasing investments in human resources and digital tools.
Ayushman Bharat is a national health protection scheme launched by the Indian government. It aims to cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) by providing coverage up to Rs. 500,000 per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. Some key objectives include focusing on wellness of poor families, providing medical benefits, and establishing nearby health centers. It will provide cashless benefits to beneficiaries across public and private empaneled hospitals with defined medical packages. States will implement the scheme through dedicated agencies to manage the program.
This document discusses health care financing in India. It defines health care financing as mobilizing and allocating funds for specific health services and payment mechanisms. India relies heavily on private out-of-pocket spending for health care, with only about 10% having health insurance. Major challenges include linking insurance to employment when most work is informal, and excluding many poor from coverage. Community-based financing models show promise in providing social inclusion and financial protection. The conclusion calls for recognizing the role of health economists and addressing health financing within broader governance, economic, educational, and social contexts.
This document provides an overview of healthcare financing in India. It begins with definitions of health care financing and outlines the key functions of accumulating, mobilizing, and allocating money for health needs. It then discusses the main mechanisms of healthcare financing globally and in India, including how money is raised through taxes, insurance contributions, and other means. It also addresses how funds are pooled and how health services are paid for. The document reviews India's current healthcare financing indicators and challenges, such as low public spending and high out-of-pocket costs. It concludes with initiatives by the Government of India and recommendations to improve healthcare financing in India.
This document discusses health care financing. It begins by defining key terms related to health care financing sources, including public expenditures, external aid, and private expenditures. It then outlines the main mechanisms of health care financing: general revenue, social insurance contributions, private insurance premiums, community financing, and direct out-of-pocket payments. For each mechanism, it provides a brief definition and description. The document concludes by stating that the role of health financing should be recognized, that it cannot be dealt with separately from other factors like governance and economic growth, and that governments need to actively participate to avoid market failures.
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The health system in India has three main levels - central, state, and local. States have independent systems for healthcare delivery, while the central government is responsible for policymaking, planning, guidance, and coordination. Healthcare administration is divided between central and state ministries. The central government oversees national programs and institutions, while states provide direct services and implement public health programs. Effective constitutional laws and environmental policies are needed to limit pollution and protect public health.
The document outlines India's National Health Policy, which aims to provide health for all citizens by 2000 AD. Key elements of the 1983 policy included creating health awareness, increasing access to clean water and sanitation, and improving rural health infrastructure. However, many factors interfered with progress towards the goal, such as insufficient funding and intersectoral coordination. As a result, a new National Health Policy was introduced in 2001 with updated goals such as reducing mortality from diseases like tuberculosis and malaria by 2010. The WHO is also committed to supporting health for all globally through leadership, standards development, and technical assistance to countries.
The document discusses primary health care in India. It outlines that primary health care was organized in 1978 in Alma Ata to provide essential health care close to communities. India developed a three-tier rural health care system of sub-centers, primary health centers (PHCs), and community health centers. PHCs are the first point of contact and aim to provide integrated curative and preventive services. The document discusses the principles, components, staffing, and challenges of implementing primary health care in India.
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The document provides an overview of India's health care delivery system, describing its organization at national, state, district, block and village levels. It explains the key components at each level, including the national Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, state health departments, and primary care facilities like sub-centers, PHCs and CHCs. The document also outlines the functions and manpower of these primary care facilities, and discusses national health policies, programs and the concept of universal health coverage in India.
This document provides an overview of rural health care services in India. It describes the various levels of healthcare available, including primary, secondary and tertiary care. At the primary level, it outlines the roles of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), Anganwadi workers, local dais, male and female health workers, and the services provided at subcenters and primary health centers. It also discusses the functions of community health centers at the secondary level and the organization of healthcare administration at the district level through rural and urban bodies.
The document discusses India's National Urban Health Mission. The mission aims to provide equitable access to quality health care for the urban poor population as cities are seeing rapid growth. It focuses on improving the efficiency of the public health system and promoting partnerships between government and non-government providers. The mission seeks to meet the health needs of vulnerable groups like slum dwellers through primary health centers, community-based health insurance, and initiatives like the Urban Social Health Activist program. It was established to address the lack of standards and economic barriers to healthcare access faced by many in urban areas.
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This document discusses public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Bangladesh. It defines PPPs as contractual agreements between public agencies and private sectors to deliver public services by sharing risks and rewards. The document outlines the goals, objectives, concepts, and principles of PPPs. It discusses global PPP contexts and scenarios in Bangladesh. It examines PPP approaches, targeted outcomes and benefits, challenges, risks, and opportunities of PPPs in the health sector. The key points are accelerating investments, improved quality, timely delivery, reduced costs, and innovative solutions through PPPs in health infrastructure and services.
The document discusses Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres, which aims to transform India's primary healthcare system by providing comprehensive and affordable primary care services close to communities through Health and Wellness Centres. It outlines key issues with the current selective primary healthcare package and low utilization of public health facilities. The initiative will establish 150,000 Health and Wellness Centres by upgrading Sub Health Centres and Primary Health Centres to provide expanded services covering maternal and child health to non-communicable diseases and geriatric needs. It focuses on developing a continuum of care through these centres, community involvement, and leveraging technology for service delivery.
The document outlines India's national health plans from the First Five Year Plan in 1951 to the Eleventh Five Year Plan in 2012. Key highlights include:
- The First Plan focused on provision of water, sanitation, malaria control, and primary healthcare. 725 Primary Health Centers were established.
- Subsequent plans expanded healthcare infrastructure and prioritized control of communicable diseases, family planning, and improving rural health services.
- Recent plans aimed to improve healthcare access and efficiency, introduce universal health insurance, and achieve "Health for All" through a network of primary health centers.
- The Eleventh Plan seeks to restructure policies to achieve faster and more inclusive growth, focusing on individual healthcare, especially
The document summarizes India's national policy and key legislation related to children's health, welfare, and rights. It outlines that India has constitutional protections for children and was one of the first countries to adopt a National Policy for Children in 1974 to promote their development. It describes several important acts that legislate areas like child marriage, labor, juvenile justice, breastfeeding promotion, sex selection, and rights of children with disabilities. The national plan of action and prime minister's monitoring of child health targets are also summarized.
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The document discusses the history of maternal health and nursing education policies in India from ancient to modern times. It notes that maternal care was addressed in ancient texts like the Vedas and practices like Ayurveda. Key developments included Ashoka building hospitals with midwives in the 3rd century BC, and texts like Sushruta and Ashtanga Hridaya addressing women's health. After independence, India established programs and committees to improve maternal and child welfare. Nursing education also evolved, from training dais to establishing the ANM, GNM, and nursing programs and councils.
The document discusses various factors that influence human growth and development, including genetics, nutrition, diseases/infections, environment, relationships and prenatal factors. It outlines several developmental theories including Erikson's psychosocial stages, Freud's psychosexual stages, Kohlberg's moral development stages, Piaget's cognitive development phases and Fowler's stages of faith development. Key aspects of growth include increases in size through cell multiplication and maturation of functions like the nervous system. Development is influenced by a variety of genetic and environmental inputs throughout the lifespan.
The document discusses various health policies and legislations in India, including the National Health Policy of 1983 and 2002. The National Health Policy of 1983 aimed to establish a network of primary health care services through community health workers and a referral system. The National Health Policy of 2002 recognized gaps in health facilities and sought to increase health spending, strengthen primary care, and reduce inequities in access. The National Population Policy of 2000 and National Policy for Children of 1974 also aimed to improve health, education, nutrition, and empowerment outcomes for populations.
The document discusses child welfare and protection services in India. It outlines that child welfare services aim to ensure the well-being of children, especially those lacking parental care. It also discusses key laws and frameworks to protect children's rights such as the Juvenile Justice Act, Integrated Child Protection Scheme, and Childline service which provides emergency assistance to children. Major initiatives to support children such as the mid-day meal scheme and efforts to eliminate child labor are also summarized.
The pediatric nurse's role is complex and varied, encompassing health promotion, disease treatment, and rehabilitation. Key responsibilities include primary caregiving, coordinating care with other providers, advocating for patients, providing health education, consulting, counseling, case management, recreation activities, social work functions, and participating in research. The overarching goals are to promote children's healthy development, provide medical care for illnesses, and assist with disabilities.
This document outlines the expanded and extended role of pediatric nurses. It discusses that pediatric nursing involves preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative care for children from conception through adolescence. The roles of pediatric nurses have grown beyond direct caregiving and now include primary caregiver, health educator, nurse counselor, social worker, team coordinator, manager, child advocate, recreationalist, nurse consultant, researcher, and more. Pediatric nurses work in hospitals, clinics, schools, communities and more to support the holistic health of children. Advanced practice roles like pediatric nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists provide specialized care for acute, chronic, or critically ill children.
This document discusses pediatric nursing and vital statistics related to child health. It begins by defining pediatric as the branch of science dealing with the care of children from conception through adolescence. The roles of the pediatric nurse are then outlined as both caring for and curing children, through activities like providing nursing care, health education, counseling, and serving as an advocate. Key vital statistics for measuring child health are introduced, such as birth rate, mortality rates for perinatal, neonatal, postnatal, infant, and children under five years old. Formulas for calculating some of these mortality rates are also provided.
The document outlines several national health programs in India focused on improving child health. Key programs discussed include:
1. The Reproductive and Child Health Program which aims to reduce infant, child, and maternal mortality rates.
2. The Universal Immunization Program which aims to achieve 100% immunization coverage of various diseases.
3. The Integrated Child Development Services scheme which provides supplementary nutrition, immunization, health checkups and education to children under 6.
4. Several national nutritional programs focused on reducing anemia, iodine deficiency disorders, and providing midday meals.
This document discusses various roles and specialties within the nursing profession. It describes roles such as advanced practice nursing, nurse midwifery, geriatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, school nursing, occupational health nursing, forensic nursing, correctional nursing, disaster nursing, and nursing administration. It also discusses expanding roles and opportunities in nursing internationally due to factors like increasing health needs, economic conditions, research and knowledge growth, and support from governments and private organizations.
The document outlines the key aspects of India's National Health Policies from 1983 to 2017. It discusses the goals and objectives of each policy, which focused on strengthening primary healthcare, reducing disease burdens, and improving access to healthcare. The National Health Policy of 2017 aims to achieve universal health coverage and deliver affordable, quality healthcare for all. Its goals include reducing mortality rates and expanding coverage of health services by 2025. The policy also identifies priority areas like sanitation, nutrition, and reducing pollution to improve population health.
- Government health spending in India is very low at just over 1% of GDP, well below what is needed to meet the country's health needs. This has forced many people to rely on private healthcare, leading to high out-of-pocket costs that push many into poverty.
- Reforms are needed such as increasing public health spending to 3-5% of GDP, regulating the private sector, and implementing a universal health coverage program. However, challenges remain due to India's large population, infrastructure weaknesses, and need to balance fiscal priorities.
- Initiatives have been launched such as the National Rural Health Mission and health insurance programs, but more focus is needed on primary care, community participation, and direct
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The National Health Mission (NHM) aims to provide universal access to equitable, affordable, and quality healthcare services. It seeks to strengthen primary healthcare through initiatives like Health and Wellness Centers and increasing public expenditure on healthcare. The NHM addresses issues such as low access to healthcare, fragmented programs, and shortages in human resources. It focuses on improving healthcare management through measures like community involvement, decentralization, and flexible financing. The ultimate goal is to support states in providing comprehensive and high-quality healthcare that meets people's needs.
The document discusses the privatization of India's health sector and its benefits and concerns. It notes that while partnerships with private entities can enhance infrastructure and access to specialized care, effective regulation is needed to prevent exploitation. Concerns include the potential for commercialization and neglect of certain diseases. Overall, a well-regulated private sector can improve healthcare services, but the state retains primary responsibility for providing universal and affordable access.
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The government of Sierra Leone aims to achieve universal healthcare coverage through scaling up community health workers and increasing funding. However, the national health system remains underfunded after being devastated by Ebola. This proposal suggests leveraging private sector funding through IDA's Private Sector Window to close the $11 million annual funding gap for community health workers. Specifically, it proposes using blended financing from IDA and other donors to fund start-up costs and initial insurance premiums. The government would also increase domestic funding for health and promote national health insurance and community-based insurance schemes. This would crowd in private sector funding to develop healthcare providers and insurance programs.
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- The document discusses the establishment of Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs) in India as part of the Ayushman Bharat program to provide comprehensive primary healthcare through improved public health centers.
- The HWCs aim to expand services, increase access through population enumeration and empanelment, and improve health outcomes through a continuum of care across various levels of the healthcare system. They will work to reduce costs, mitigate disease risks, and ease overcrowding at higher-level facilities.
- Key goals for HWCs include delivering comprehensive preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care through adequately staffed and equipped centers integrated with mobile units, health promotion, community
A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.
Health systems are responsible for delivering services that improve, maintain or restore the health of individuals and their communities.
Common elements in virtually all health systems are primary healthcare and public health measures.
Understanding the concept of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and how can we reach it, both globally and also in India. The presentation also includes HLEG report , which is the proposed architecture for India's guide to reach UHC.
The People’s Republic of China has made great achievements in improving health status over the past six decades, mainly due to the government’s commitment to health, provision of cost effective public health programmes, growing coverage of health financial protection mechanisms and investments in an extensive health-care delivery network.
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The document outlines key aspects of India's national health, population, and Ayush policies. It discusses the objectives and goals of the National Health Policy of 2002, including reducing infant and maternal mortality rates and increasing health spending. It also summarizes the National Population Policy of 2000, which aims to address unmet family planning needs and reduce total fertility rates. Finally, it provides an overview of the various policy prescriptions and strategies across these national policies.
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This document summarizes the prospects and challenges of achieving universal health coverage in Bangladesh. It provides an overview of Bangladesh's health system infrastructure and outlines some of its strengths in expanding health services. However, it notes there are still inequities in coverage between regions, rural/urban areas, and income levels. Two successful interventions are described: 1) A study that improved child immunization in urban slums by modifying service schedules, training providers, and establishing support groups. This significantly increased valid vaccination coverage. 2) Efforts to improve coverage in rural hard-to-reach areas through collaborative programs, though details are not provided. The document analyzes progress made but still identifies regional disparities and access barriers as ongoing challenges.
The document discusses India's plan to establish 150,000 Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) by transforming existing primary health centres to deliver comprehensive primary health care services. The HWCs aim to expand access to services like management of communicable and non-communicable diseases, reproductive care, palliative care, and health promotion. They will operate under principles like population coverage, continuity of care through referrals, community engagement, and use of technology. The success relies on adequate staffing, infrastructure, supplies and financing at HWCs, as well as coordination with secondary and tertiary facilities.
This document proposes a plan to universalize access to quality primary healthcare in India. It discusses some of the key problems in healthcare access such as poor rural facilities, malnutrition, and high infant mortality. It then outlines a proposed biennial door-to-door health inspection program led by teams consisting of doctors, nurses, and municipal representatives. The program would check sanitation, nutrition, and provide basic medical aid and awareness. Implementing such inspections through a dedicated body in each block could help ensure even underprivileged communities receive quality primary care. Challenges to the plan include funding, staffing, and ensuring standards are uniformly applied.
1. India spends a considerable share of GDP on health but per capita spending is very low, and public spending is only 1.2% of the total. This leads to inequality in access and poverty from medical costs.
2. Measures are proposed to increase public health spending to 2.5% of GDP, incentivize doctors to work in public hospitals, regulate drug prices, and integrate insurance schemes under a universal healthcare program focused on primary care.
3. Additional reforms include enforcing treatment guidelines, increasing domestic production of essential drugs, building drug warehouses, and establishing an all-India health services for better administration of the health sector.
This document provides an overview of health insurance schemes in low and middle income countries. It defines low, lower middle, and upper middle income countries based on GNI per capita. It then discusses the types of health insurance schemes commonly implemented in LMICs, including social/national health insurance funded through taxes and contributions, private health insurance, and community-based health insurance. The document also discusses factors that affect enrollment in these schemes and provides examples of specific country implementations, challenges faced, and opportunities to expand coverage.
The Cambodia HiT reports that the national health sector reforms initiated two decades ago have had a positive impact on Cambodia’s health sector. The country’s health status has substantially improved since 1993 and is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal targets. Improving the quality of care is now the most pressing imperative in health-system strengthening.
This document presents India's proposed National Health Policy for 2017. It begins with an introduction noting India's large economy and healthcare interventions but lack of effective health system delivery. The aim and principles focus on universal access to quality healthcare. A situation analysis identifies challenges around disease burdens, social determinants, inequities, and quality of care. Goals and policy directions prioritize investment in preventive healthcare, strengthening primary care, ensuring access to services, and integrating national health programs. The document provides a comprehensive overview of India's healthcare system and proposed policies to address gaps.
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Om shaanti shaanti shaantihi
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1. INTRODUCTION
(Context, need and scope)
• India today, is the world’s third largest economy in terms
of its Gross National Income (in PPP terms)
• India has the potential to grow larger and more equitably,
and to emerge to be counted as one of the developed
nations of the world
• It possesses, a sophisticated arsenal of interventions,
technologies and knowledge required for providing health
care to her people
2. • Yet the gaps in health outcomes continue to widen
• The reality is, “The power of existing interventions is not
matched by the power of health systems to deliver them
to those in greatest need, in a comprehensive way, and on
an adequate scale”
Changing contexts:
• Changing health priorities
– Though the commitments to further achievement in MDG is
needed and must not flag, it also signifies a rising and
unfulfilled expectation of many other health needs that currently
receive little public attention
3. • Emergence of a robust health care industry growing at
15% compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
• Incidence of catastrophic expenditure due to health care
costs is growing and is now estimated to be one of the
major contributors to poverty
• Economic growth has increased the fiscal capacity
available.
Therefore, the country needs a new health policy that is
responsive to these contextual changes
4. • Moreover, the political will to ensure universal access to
affordable healthcare services in an assured mode – the
promise of Health Assurance – is an important catalyst
for the framing of a New Health Policy
• This National Health Policy addresses the urgent need to
improve the performance of health systems
• It is a declaration of the determination of the Government
to leverage economic growth to achieve health outcomes
and an explicit acknowledgement that better health
contributes immensely to improved productivity as well
as to equity
5. The primary aim of the NHP 2015, is
• To inform, clarify, strengthen and prioritize the role of the
Government in shaping health systems in all its
dimensions (investment in health, organization and
financing of healthcare services, prevention of diseases)
• Promotion of good health through cross sectoral action,
access to technologies, developing human resources,
encouraging medical pluralism, building the knowledge
base required for better health, financial protection
strategies and regulation and legislation for health
6. Situation analysis
1. Achievement of Millennium Development Goals:
• India is set to reach the Millennium Development Goals
(MDG) with respect to maternal and child survival
• While the narrowing of these gaps demonstrate a
significant effort, we could have done better.
• Notably, the rate of decline of still-births and neonatal
mortality has been lower than the child mortality on the
whole
7. 2. Achievements in Population Stabilization:
• India has also shown consistent improvement in
population stabilization, with a decrease in decadal
growth rates
• Twelve of the 21 large States for which recent TFR is
available, have achieved a TFR of at or below the
replacement rate of 2.1 and three are likely to reach this
soon
• The challenge is now in the remaining six states which
accounts for 42 % of the national population and 56 % of
the annual population increase
8. • In the remaining small States and Union Territories
except Meghalaya, the Crude Birth Rate (CBR), is less
than 21 per 1000
• The national TFR has declined from 2.9 to 2.4. The
persistent challenge on this front is the declining sex ratio
9. 3. Inequities in Health Outcomes:
• There are urban-rural inequities and there are inequities
across states
• A number of districts, many in tribal areas, perform
poorly even in those states where overall averages are
improving
• Marginalized communities and poorer economic quintiles
of the population continue to fare poorly
• Outreach and service delivery for the urban poor, even for
immunization services has been inadequate
10. 4. Concerns on Quality of Care:
• Quality of care is a matter of serious concern as it
compromises the effectiveness of care
• For example, though over 90% of pregnant women
receive one antenatal check up and 87 % received full TT
immunization, only about 68.7 % of women have
received the mandatory three antenatal check-ups
• For institutional delivery standard protocols are often not
followed during labour and the postpartum period
• Only 61% of children have been fully immunized
11. 5. Performance in Disease Control Programmes:
• India’s progress on communicable disease control is
mixed
• Even though there have been significant reductions, there
is stagnation ( Leprosy, Kala Azar, Lymphatic Filariasis,
HIV etc.,)
• In tuberculosis the challenge is high prevalence and rising
problems of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
• Though these are significant declines from the MDG
baseline, India still contributes to 24% of all global new
case detection
12. • Viral Encephalitis, Dengue and Chikungunya are on the
increase, particularly in urban areas and as of now we do
not have effective measures to address them
• Where there are sub-critical human resource deployment,
weak logistics and inadequate infrastructure, all national
health programmes do badly
13. 6. Developments under the National Rural Health
Mission:
• The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) led to a
significant strengthening of public health systems
• ASHA’s brought the community closer to public services,
improving utilization of services and health behaviors
• The NRHM deployed over 18,000 ambulances for free
emergency response and patient transport services to over
a million patients monthly
14. • It provided cash transfers to over one crore pregnant
women annually, empowering and facilitating them to
seek free care in the institutions
• Across States, there were major increases in outpatient
attendance, bed occupancy and institutional delivery
• However these developments were uneven and more than
80% of the increase in services is likely to have been
contributed by less than 20% of the public health facilities
15. • Inefficiencies in fund utilization, poor governance and
leakages have been a greater problem in some of the
weaker states
• Much of the increase in service delivery was related to
select RCH services and to the national disease control
programmes, and not to the wider range of health care
services that were needed
16. 7. Burden of Disease:
• Disease conditions for which national programmes
provide universal coverage account for less than 10% of
all mortalities and only for about 15% of all morbidities
• Over 75% of communicable diseases are not part of
existing national programmes
• Non-communicable diseases (39.1%) and injuries
(11.8%) now constitute the bulk of the country’s disease
burden
• National Health Programmes for NCD’S are very limited
in coverage and scope
17. 8. NRHM- for strengthening state health systems:
• NRHM was intended to strengthen State health systems
to cover all health needs, not just those of the NHP
• In practice, however, it remained confined largely to
national programme priorities
• Strengthening health systems for providing
comprehensive care required higher levels of investment
and human resources than that were made available
• The budget received and the expenditure thereunder was
only about 40% of what was envisaged for a full re-
vitalization in the NRHM Framework
18. 9. Urban Health:
• Rapid urbanization- massive growth in number of the
urban poor population, especially those living in slums
• This population has poorer health outcomes due to adverse
social determinants and poor access to health care
facilities, despite living in close proximity to many
hospitals - public and private
• National Urban Health Mission was sanctioned in 2013-
strong focus on strengthening primary health care
• NUHM needs substantial expansion of funding on a
sustained basis in order to establish & operationalize well
functional primary health care system in the urban areas
19. 10. Cost of Care and Efforts at Financial Protection:
• The failure of public investment in health to cover the
entire spectrum of health care needs is reflected best in
the worsening situation in terms of costs of care and
impoverishment due to health care costs
• All services available under national programmes are free
to all and universally accessed with fairly good rates of
coverage
• Private markets have little contribution to make in most
of these areas
20. • Yet, health care costs are more impoverishing than ever
before and over 63 million persons are faced with poverty
every year due to health care costs alone
• It is because there is no financial protection for the vast
majority of health care needs
• In 2011-12, the share of out of pocket expenditure on
health care as a proportion of total household monthly per
capita expenditure was 6.9% in rural areas and 5.5% in
urban areas
21. • This led to an increasing number of households facing
catastrophic expenditures due to health costs (18% of all
households in 2011-12 as compared to 15% in 2004-05)
• Under NRHM free care in public hospitals was extended
to a select set of conditions
• For all other services, user fees especially for diagnostics
and “outside prescriptions” for drugs continued
• Also due to the selective approach, several essential
services especially for chronic illness was not obtainable
resulting in physical and financial hardship and poor
quality of care
22. 11. Publicly Financed Health Insurance:
• A number of publicly financed health insurance schemes
were introduced to improve access to hospitalization
services and to protect households from high medical
expenses
• Eight states introduced health insurance programmes for
covering tertiary care need
• The Central Government under the Ministry of Labour &
Employment, launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima
Yojana (RSBY) in 2008
23. • The population coverage under these various schemes
increased from almost 55 million people in 2003-04 to
about 370 million in 2014, of which nearly two thirds
(180 million) are those in BPL category
• RSBY have improved utilization of hospital services,
especially in private sector and among the poorest 20% of
households and SC/ST households
Problems:
• Low awareness among the beneficiaries about the
entitlement and how and when to use the RSBY card
24. • Denial of services by private hospitals for many
categories of illnesses
• The insurance schemes vary widely in terms of benefit
packages and have resulted in fragmentation of funds
available for health care
• All National and State health insurance schemes need to
be aligned into a single insurance scheme and a single
fund pool reducing fragmentation
• The RSBY scheme has now been shifted to the MoHFW,
helping the State and Central Ministry move to a tax
financed single payer system approach
25. 12. Healthcare Industry:
• Engaging and supporting the growth of the health care
industry has been an important element of public policy
• The current growth rate of at 14% and is projected to be 21%
in the next decade
• The Government has had an active policy in the last 25 years
of building a positive economic climate for the health care
industry
• Amongst these measures are lower direct taxes; higher
depreciation in medical equipment; subsidized education for
medical, nursing and other paramedical professional
graduating from government institutions
26. • For International Finance Corporation, the Indian private
health care industry is the second highest destination for
its global investments in health
• So there is a necessity and a rationale for the health
Ministry to intervene and to actively shape the growth of
this sector for ensuring that it is aligned to its overall
health policy goals, especially with regards to access and
financial protection
27. 13. Private Sector in Health:
• The private sector today provides nearly 80% of
outpatient care and about 60% of inpatient care
• 72% of all private health care enterprises are own-
account-enterprises (OAEs), which are household run
businesses
• But over time employment OAEs are declining and the
number of medical establishments and corporate hospitals
is rising
• There are major ongoing efforts to organize such OAEs
within the corporate sector
28. • For OAEs and smaller establishments, the main grounds
for engagement are not financial partnerships with
government, but skill up-gradation, referral support etc
• In terms of comparative efficiency, public sector is value
for money as it accounts (based on the NSSO 60th round)
for less than 30 % of total expenditure, but provides for
about 20% of outpatient care and 40% of in-patient care.
• This same expenditure also pays for 60% of end- of-life
care (RGI estimates on hospital mortality), and almost
100% of preventive and promotive care and a substantial
part of medical and nursing education as well
29. 14. Realizing the Potential of AYUSH services:
• The National Policy on Indian Systems of Medicine and
Homeopathy (2002)- mainstreaming of AYUSH under the
NRHM
• National AYUSH Mission has been launched for overall
strengthening of AYUSH network in the public sector
• There is need to recognize the contribution of the large
private sector and not-for-profit organizations providing
AYUSH services
30. 15. Human Resource Development:
• The last ten years have seen a major expansion of
medical, nursing and technical education
• The challenge is to guide the expansion of educational
institutions to provide skilled health workers to where
they are needed most, and with the necessary skills
31. 16. Research and Challenges:
• The Department of Health Research was established in
2006 to strengthen Indian efforts in health research
• Currently over 90% of the research publications from
medical colleges come from only nine medical colleges
• Funding of less than 1 % of all public health expenditure
has resulted in limited progress
• The report of the Committee that examined the
functioning of the ICMR in 2012, and the report of the
Working Group constituted for the 12th Plan can guide
policy in this area
32. 17. Regulatory Role of Government:
• The Government’s regulatory role extends to the
regulation of drugs through the CDSCO, food safety
through the office of the Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India, professional education through the
four professional councils and clinical establishments by
the National Council for the same
• Progress in each of these areas has been challenging
• Reforms in each of these areas, but especially in
professional councils and clinical establishments is also
facing resistance from certain stakeholders
33. • There are also genuine concerns that it would bring back
“license raj” the unnecessary and inefficient Government
interference in private sector growth
• But clearly as private industry grows at a massive pace,
and as this is an area touching upon the lives and health
of its population the Government has to find ways to
move forward on these responsibilities
34. 18. Investment in Health Care:
• The total spending on healthcare in 2011 in the country is
about 4.1% of GDP
• Spending at least 5–6% of its GDP is required to attain
basic health care needs
• The Government spending on healthcare in India is only
1.04% of GDP which is about 4 % of total Government
expenditure, less than 30% of total health spending (Rs.
957 per capita)
35. • The Central Government share of this is Rs. 325 (0.34%
GDP) while State Government share is Rs. 632 on per capita
basis at base line scenario
• The failure to attain minimum levels of public health
expenditure remains the single most important constraint
• It would be ambitious if India could aspire to a public health
expenditure of 4% of the GDP, but most expert groups have
estimated 2.5 % as being more realistic
• At such levels of expenditure, “purchasing,” would have to be
mainly from public providers for efficient use of resources
with purchasing from private providers only for
supplementation
37. Goal, principles and objectives
Goal:
The attainment of the highest possible level of
good health and well-being, through a preventive and
promotive health care orientation in all developmental
policies, and universal access to good quality health
care services without anyone having to face financial
hardship as a consequence
38. Principles:
• Equity:
– Action to reach the poorest and minimizing disparity on
account of gender, poverty, caste, disability, other forms of
social exclusion and geographical barriers
• Universality:
– Systems and services are designed to cater to the entire
population- not only a targeted sub-group
– Care to be taken to prevent exclusions on social or
economic grounds
39. • Patient Centered & Quality of Care:
– Health Care services would be effective, safe, and
convenient, provided with dignity and confidentiality with
all facilities across all sectors being assessed, certified and
incentivized to maintain quality of care
• Inclusive Partnerships:
– The task of providing health care for all cannot be
undertaken by Government, acting alone
– Participation of communities & partnerships with
academic institutions, not for profit agencies and with the
commercial private sector and health care industry to
achieve these goals is required
40. • Pluralism:
– Patients would have access to AYUSH care providers
based on validated local health traditions.
– These systems would also have Government support and
supervision to develop and enrich their contribution to
meeting the national health goals and objectives
• Subsidiarity:
– For ensuring responsiveness and greater participation,
increasing transfer of decision making to as decentralized a
level as is consistent with practical considerations and
institutional capacity would be promoted
41. • Accountability:
– Financial and performance accountability, transparency in
decision making, and elimination of corruption in health
care systems, both in the public systems and in the private
health care industry, would be essential
• Professionalism, Integrity and Ethics:
– Health workers and managers shall perform their work
with the highest level of professionalism, integrity and trust
and be supported by a systems and regulatory environment
that enables it
42. • Learning and Adaptive System:
– Constantly improving dynamic organization of health care
which is knowledge and evidence based, reflective and
learning from the communities they serve, the experience
of implementation itself, and from national and
international knowledge partners
• Affordability:
– As costs of care rise, affordability, as distinct from equity,
requires emphasis
– Impoverishment due to health care costs is of course, even
more unacceptable
43. Objectives:
• Improve population health status through concerted
policy action in all sectors and expand preventive,
promotive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative services
provided by the public health sector
• Achieve a significant reduction in out of pocket
expenditure due to health care costs and reduction in
proportion of households experiencing catastrophic health
expenditures and consequent impoverishment
44. • Assure universal availability of free, comprehensive
primary health care services, as an entitlement, for all
aspects of reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent
health and for the most prevalent communicable and non-
communicable diseases in the population
• Enable universal access to free essential drugs,
diagnostics, emergency ambulance services, and
emergency medical and surgical care services in public
health facilities, so as to enhance the financial protection
role of public facilities for all sections of the population
45. • Ensure improved access and affordability of secondary
and tertiary care services through a combination of public
hospitals and strategic purchasing of services from the
private health sector
• Influence the growth of the private health care industry
and medical technologies to ensure alignment with public
health goals, and enable contribution to making health
care systems more effective, efficient, rational, safe,
affordable and ethical
47. 1. Ensuring Adequate Investment:
• Public health expenditure needed- 4 to 5% of the GDP
• Based on financial capacity of the country to provide this
amount and the institutional capacity to utilize the
increased funding in an effective manner- 2.5% of the
GDP is proposed
• Central expenditures- 40%
• At current prices, a target of 2.5% of GDP translates to
Rs. 3800 per capita, representing an almost four fold
increase in five years
48. • Major source of financing- general taxation
• The Government would explore the creation of a health
cess on the lines of the education cess for raising the
necessary resources
• Other than general taxation, this cess could mobilise
contributions from specific commodity taxes- such as the
taxes on tobacco, and alcohol, from specific industries
and innovative forms of resource mobilization
49. • Since about 50% of health expenditure goes into human
resources for health, an equitous growth of health and
education sectors would also lead to increased
employment in many areas and communities
• High public investment in health care is one of the most
efficient ways of ameliorating inequities, and for this
reason, this commitment to higher public expenditures is
essential
50. 2. Preventive and Promotive Health:
• Addresses the wider social & environmental determinants
of health
• To realize this vision of attainment of highest level of
health, “Health In All” approach as complement to Health
For All is needed
• All sectors would need to be convinced that preventive
and promotive health care approaches are not only a
health gain but a first order economic gain as well
51. • If the social and economic environment in which they is
not conducive to good health, the impact of individual
behaviours may be severely limited
• Given the multiple determinants of health, a prevention
agenda that addresses the social and economic
environment requires cross-sectoral, multilevel
interventions that involve sectors
• Community support and capacity to enjoy good health,
particularly among those who are most vulnerable and
have the least capacity to make choices and changes in
their lifestyle is needed
52. Seven priority areas for improving the environment for
health :
• The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,
• Balanced and Healthy Diets
• Nasha Mukti Abhiyan
• Yatri Suraksha
• Nirbhaya Nari
• Reduced stress and improved safety & preventive
measures in the work place
• Reducing indoor and outdoor air pollution
53. • The policy explicitly articulates the need for the
development of strategies and institutional mechanisms in
each of these seven areas to synergize individual and
family level action, with social movements
• Taken together, this Health in all approach could be
popularized as the Swasth Nagrik Abhiyan- a social
movement for health
• Policy recognizes the need for the holistic approach and
cross sectoral convergence in addressing social
determinants of health
54. • To lead these preventive measures, commitment and
effectiveness in addressing the health care needs where
preventive action fails is needed
• Some aspects of disease prevention and health promotion
are specific services that are to be delivered as part of
primary health care services (Immunization, ANC, School
health programs etc)
• Occupational Health also requires greater emphasis.
• Delivery of such an expanded range of services requires
1. moving from primary health care to comprehensive health care
approach
55. 2. The strengthening and transformation of the ASHA programme
3. Involvement of communities and multiple stakeholders (Social
movement for health)
• Convergence with sectors for synergistic improvement of
health status is envisaged
• The policy also recommends the setting up of seven
“Task Forces” for formulation of a detailed “Preventive
and Promotive Care Strategy” in each of the seven
priority areas for preventive and promotive action and to
set the indicators and the targets and mechanisms for
achievement in each of these areas
56. 3. Organization of Public Health Care Delivery:
The 7 Key Policy Shifts:
a. In Primary Care: Selective to assured comprehensive care
b. In Secondary and Tertiary Care: Input oriented, budget line
financing to an output based strategic purchasing
c. In Public Hospitals: From User Fees & Cost Recovery Based
Public Hospitals to Assured Free Drugs, Diagnostic and
Emergency Services
d. In Infrastructure and Human Resource Development:
From normative approaches in their development to targeted
approaches to reach under-serviced areas
57. e. In Urban Health: From token under-financed interventions
to on-scale assured interventions that reach the Urban Poor
and establish linkages with national programmes
f. In National Health Programmes- Integration with health
systems for effectiveness, and contributing to strengthening
health systems for efficiency
g. In AYUSH services: From Stand-Alone AYUSH to a three
dimensional Mainstreaming
59. RCH services
Maternal and perinatal mortality is highest in population
sub-groups which are
• poorer
• more malnourished
• less educated
• have lower age of parity and
• have too many children or too soon.
60. Reduction of Maternal Mortality:
• In antenatal care this translates to timely detection of
complications like hypertension, anemia and diabetes and
adequate response to the same
• Skilled birth attendant
• Regularly functional operation theatres with blood
available on a regular basis (Ots- quality standards)
• Surgeon – regular service (maintaining skills)
61. Cash Transfers, Quality of Care Issues:
• No financial barriers
• The existing cash transfer (Janani Suraksha Yojana)
however has been effective to cover non medical costs of
care and needs to be retained
Child and Adolescent Health:
• Single digit neonatal mortality and stillbirth rates through
community based intervention centred around the ASHA
and anganwadi worker and improved home based and
facility based management of sick newborns
• Adolescents (10 to 19 years) - reduction of obesity
62. Universal Immunization Programme:
• Immunization coverage with quality and safety
• Vaccine security through encouragement of multiple suppliers
and appropriate procurement policies
• Introduction of new cost effective vaccines
• Health technology assessment and national epidemiological
information base
Supportive Supervision:
• One such promising strategy that can be scaled up is where
carefully selected and supported nurse-trainers will visit and
work with facilities in underperforming and highly vulnerable
districts to establish a better quality of facility and community
level care.
63. Population Stabilization
• Maintaining a gender balance
• 21 States have already achieved replacement levels of
fertility rates
• Strategic objectives now are better and safer contraceptive
choices, with a further push back in age of marriage and
improvement in spacing
64. • In all 36 States however the fertility rates are
declining rapidly and with improving levels of
women’s education, the demand for contraceptive
services is established.
• Fertility rates continue to be unsustainably high in
as many as nine States which account for over
35% of the population.
• To increase the proportion of male sterilization
from < 5% to at least 30 % and if possible much
higher
65. Women’ Health & Gender Mainstreaming
One major concern is the health response to victims of
gender violence – ranging from sexual assault to acid attacks
on women
67. Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme
• Comprehensive understanding of all communicable
diseases in the respective areas
• Sufficient public health capacity down to the district level
The approach to integration
• HIV, tuberculosis and leprosy, plus all the vector borne
diseases and the expanded programme of immunisation
• Robust public health system
• Blood safety – HIV control
• The control of malaria requires ASHAs
68. Control of Tuberculosis
• Disease transmission, rapid progression of the disease in
infected patients and increase in incidence of drug
resistant tuberculosis
• Changing patterns of microbial sensitivity and medication
compliance
Control of HIV/AIDS:
• Enhanced prevention and wider access to ART
• Balance the financing strategy
69. Leprosy Elimination:
• Less than 1 per 10,000
• Reduction to grade 2 disability to less than 1 per million
by 2020
Vector Borne Disease Control:
• Malaria, Filaria and Kala-azar
• Lymphatic filariasis and kala-azar are targeted for
elimination by 2015,
• National programme for prevention and control of
Japanese Encephalitis (JE)/Acute Encephalitis Syndrome
AES
70. Non-Communicable Diseases
• Nascent or initial steps
• Integrated approach to be built up at the district level.
• This is one area where research and protocol development
for mainstreaming AYUSH
• Developing Integrative Medicine has huge potential for
effective prevention and therapy that is also safe and cost-
effective, since NCDs often require life-long management.
71. • Blindness
• Programmes against deafness and for better oral health have also
been initiated.
• Silicosis (occupational disease)
Geriatric population
• The population above 60 years comprise of 8.6% of the population
(103.8 million) and above 75 years (20.52 million)
• Almost 8% of the elderly population is bed ridden or homebound
(NSSO)
• Increasing access to palliative care would be an important objective,
and in this like for all geriatric illness, continuity of care across
levels will play a major role.
72. Mental Health:
• Sad state of neglect
• 0.47 psychologists per million people
• Integration with the primary care - specially trained
general medical officers and nurses
• Tele-medicine linkages
• Supplementing primary level facilities with counselors
and psychologists would be useful in several programmes
including mental health, such as adolescent and sexual
health programmes and HIV control.
73. Emergency Care and Disaster preparedness:
• A district that cannot respond to a poly trauma responding from a
single house collapse or a single road accident is in no position to
respond to an earthquake or a major train accident or flood.
• Army of community members
• Burns, drowning, stampede during fairs and festivals, etc.
• Building earthquake and cyclone resistant infrastructures
• A network of emergency care that has an assured provision of life
support ambulances linked to trauma management centers- one per
30 lakh population in urban and one for every 10 lakh population in
rural areas will form the key to a trauma care policy
74. Realizing the Potential of AYUSH
• A large part of the population uses AYUSH remedies
• Making AYUSH drugs available and standardising drugs and
treatment protocols.
• Recently adopted National AYUSH Mission.
• Initiating community-based AYUSH interventions
• In many primary health centers however they are the only medical
professionals available and therefore take care of both ayush and
allopathic curative care
• Validating processes of health care promotion and cure
• Development of appropriate clinical protocols for primary,
secondary and tertiary levels will be part of this approach
75. Tertiary Care Services:
• Private sector
• Strengthening 58 medical colleges in the first three phases
• Upgrading 58 district hospitals to become medical colleges and
building up close to 15 more new AIIMS.
• In addition the center has six AIIMS which will soon be functioning
at full capacity and a number of national tertiary care hospitals
,which are declared national centers of excellence in tertiary health
care
• Aravind Eye Hospitals, or the Christian Medical College Hospitals,
or Tata Cancer Hospitals, or the Sai Hospitals, have made
remarkable contributions to training appropriate specialists and
super-specialists
76. Human Resources for Health:
• Strengthening 58 existing medical colleges and further converting
58 district hospitals to new medical colleges
• Continuous flow of faculty for the over 600 medical colleges
• AIIMS like centers of medical education and research from 9 to 15.
• Ensuring that doctors are attracted to work in remote areas
• Mandatory rural postings or mandatory rotational postings
• The requirement of patient care in super specialty services is very
different from the General Specialties with regard to skills required
to render effective care. This calls for developing human resources
for super specialty care, which would entail developing training
centres for the same.
77. • National Board of Examinations as a statutory body to
innovate new education and training models to train
appropriate specialists.
• Technological innovations coupled with advances in
cellular biology knowledge are influencing therapeutic
interventions.
• Hence, developing teams comprising of clinicians, cellular
biologists, researchers, academicians, etc. in each
specialty who can deliver holistic care becomes pertinent.
78. • Primary care from selective care to comprehensive care
• B.Sc in community health
• Paramedical cadre such as perfusionists, physiotherapists,
occupational therapists, radiological technicians, MRI technicians,
nurse practitioners, and public health nurses
• Tertiary care facilities like critical care, cardio-thoracic vascular
care, neurological care, trauma care, etc. requires specialized
knowledge and skills. The policy recognizes the need for
developing training courses and curriculum in these areas.
• ASHA- activists, facilitators and providers of community level care
across various contexts.
• Community based geriatric and palliative care
79. • Nursing school in every large district or cluster of districts of about
20 to 30 lakh population
• Planned expansion of allied technical skills- radiographers,
laboratory technicians, physiotherapists, pharmacists, audiologists,
optometrists etc.
• The last seven years have seen a major inculcation of public health
management skills of different backgrounds into the public health
systems and they have performed well in improving programme
effectiveness.
• The nation has also seen a major expansion of public health and
public health management education from two or three courses in
2004 to over 30 such courses across the nation.
80. Quality of Medical Education - NEET for UG entrance at All
India level
Financing of Health Care & Engaging the Private Sector:
• Tax based financing
• 70% of the population who are poor and vulnerable (Whose per
capita monthly consumption expenditure is less than Rs. 1640 in
Rural and Rs. 2500 in urban areas at current prices)
• Raising resources for investing in health
• Improving efficiency of public sector expenditure and second is the
various forms of engagement of private sector
81. • Inclusion of cost-benefit and cost effectiveness studies in
programme design and evaluation would also contribute
significantly to increasing efficiency of public expenditure.
• Resource allocation/payment mechanisms to public health facilities
• A robust National Health Accounts System needs to be
operationalised to enable this
• Private Sector engagement would largely take the form of
purchasing care from private hospitals on a reimbursement basis-
against cashless services
82. Regulatory Framework :
• The regulatory role of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
includes regulation of
– clinical establishments
– professional and technical education
– food safety
– medical technologies and medical products with reference to introduction,
manufacture, quality assurance and sales, clinical trials and research, and
implementation of other health related laws.
Clinical Establishments Act 2010
• Only nine States and Union Territories have adopted the Act so far.
A few States have enacted their own State laws
83. Regulatory Framework for Professional Education:
• The four professional councils for medical, nursing, dental
and pharmacy council face many challenges in enforcing
quality in professional education or professional ethics
and good practice.
• Availability of safe, wholesome, and healthy foods is an
important requirement for health.
• Though enacted in 2006, the Food Safety and Standards
(FSS) Act, was operationalized only from late 2011.
84. • India is known as the manufacturing hub and pharmacy of the world
with exports to over 200 nations.
• Post market surveillance program for drugs, blood products and
medical devices shall be strengthened to ensure high degree of
reliability and to prevent adverse outcomes due to low quality
and/or refurbished devices/health products.
• Clinical trials - Drugs and Cosmetic Act for its regulation,
transparent and objective procedures shall be specified, and
functioning of ethics and review committees strengthened.
• Integrated vaccine complex at Chengalpattu would be set up and
vaccine, anti-sera manufacturing units in the public sector upgraded
with rise in their installed capacity
85. Medical Technologies:
• One of the challenges to ensuring access to free drugs and
diagnostics though public services is the quality of public
procurement and logistics.
• Public procurement and distribution when well done, as Tamilnadu
and more recently Rajasthan has shown, reduces out of pocket
expenditures on account of drugs and diagnostics considerably and
increases access while limiting irrational prescription practices.
• Central procurement agency
• National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) under National
Essential List of Medicines (NELM)
• Production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) which is the
back-bone of the generic formulations industry
86. • Government policy would be to both stimulate innovation
and new drug discovery.
• New drugs at affordable rates
• Institutions like CRI, Kasauli, the BCG Institute, Chennai,
the Institute of Serology, Kolkata, the National Biological
Institute, Noida, and Indian Pharmacopeia Commission
play vital roles in production of biologicals and vaccines
and in quality assurance and testing mechanisms.
87. ICT for Health & Health Information Needs:
Use of ICT has the potential to reduce frequency of hospital visits &
management of chronic diseases.
Five pillars
-the systems for increasing public access to information of community
health and the individual’s access to her/his own health records
-the tools required for public health providers at the periphery and at
mid level management
-systems for support to providers and hospital managers for a
measurable improvement in quality and efficiency of care
-an IT enabled supply chain management systems
-systems for better monitoring, planning and governance.
88. • Digitization of all health events and processes
• National e-Health Authority (NeHA) will be set up
• A robust growth of ICT to meet various needs of health care system
The integrated health information system will be based on key
principles and strategies like
(a) adoption of National Electronic Health Record Standards
(announced by the Ministry in 2013) and Metadata and Data
Standards;
(b) federated architecture to roll-out and link systems at State level and
national level
89. (c) progressive use of “Aadhaar” (Unique ID) for identification (in
case UID is not available, then other ID would be created as per the
standards notified by the Ministry) and issue of a unique Health Card
to every citizen;
(d) creation of health information exchange platform and national
health information network
(e) use of existing/planned national & state level IT infrastructures
such as the National Optical Fiber Network, Meghraj (cloud)
(f) smartphones/tablets for capturing real-time data
(h) setting up of dedicated governance structures.
90. • The National Health Policy also sees tremendous potential for the
application of Tele-medicine systems and M-Health.
• Today we have reliable medically certified causes for only about
28% of deaths.
• Careful deployment of ICT tools, improvement of work processes,
and innovative capacity building has to come together to make this
fundamental tool of decentralized and disaggregated burden of
disease measure reliable enough for health planning and health
outcome measurements at all levels.
91. Knowledge for Health:
Two approaches
(i) research on country specific health problems necessary to
formulate sound policies and plans for field action;
(ii) contributions to global health research
In a knowledge based sector like health, where advances happen daily
it is important to invest at least 5 % of all health expenditure on health
research.
The establishment of a Department of Health Research (DHR) in the
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare was in recognition of the key
role that health research would play for the nation.
92. • The health policy envisages strengthening the 32 publicly
funded health research institutes under the Department of
Health Research, the 15 apex public health institutions
under the Department of Health & Family Welfare, and
research activity in the over 143 Government and over
150 private medical colleges in the nation.
• The fact is that in 2007, 96% of the research publications
in India emanated from as little as 9 medical colleges that
reflect how little most of them are geared to the challenges
of health research.
93. • Health research in India needs to advance on three fronts. One front
is to generate the evidence base required for decision making in
Health Systems and Services.
• The second front is in medical product innovation and discovery as
required for our public health needs and to sustain a vibrant Indian
pharmaceutical and medical device industry on par with global
standards.
• The third front is to encourage the development of fundamental
research
• Each of these three fronts of advance needs their own distinct
strategies, and institutional and governance mechanisms.
94. • For making full use of all research capacity in the nation, grant in
aid mechanisms which provide extramural funding to research
efforts
• Grant-in-aid mechanisms would also enable a large and active
number of health NGOs to participate in the generation of
knowledge and it would be able to engage and get desirable outputs
from private institutions.
• Growing concern in health research is in the ethical dimensions
• There is also the need to develop information data-bases that
researchers can share on a wide variety of areas
95. • International aid agencies were once important sources of financing
of public health programmes, but today their entire contribution is
less than 1% of public health expenditure.
• India needs to also develop its own new policy towards
international health and health diplomacy.
• Such a policy should leverage our strengths in frugal innovation in
the area of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health care delivery
and information technology to assist all nations in improved access
to essential health commodities at much lower costs.
96. In the context of India being an emerging developed nation, Indian
policy must move towards repositioning India from being a recipient
of aid and technical assistance to an equal partner in international
technical cooperation and the pace-setter in setting international norms
and standards that prioritize peoples health as the central consideration.
Governance:
Federal Structure- Role of State and Role of Center:
Though health is a State subject, the Center has accountability to
Parliament for central funding – which is about 36% of all public
health expenditure and in some states over 50%.
97. The Institutional Framework:
• Directorates need to be strengthened by HR policies, central to
which is that, those from a public health management cadre must
hold senior positions in public health.
• Civil servants too should have clear induction and orientation
programmes in the domain as also general understanding of
institutional processes that they need to put in place so that the
directorates and various state owned institutions in a knowledge
based sector are able to perform optimally.
98. State Owned, Guided and Financed Institutions:
• General guidelines in the form of minimum governance standards
for such state owned or state financed corporations and trusts and
societies within which one can have flexibility to frame rules and
incur expenditure without referral for approvals at each step would
be put in place for ensuring optimal functioning.
99. Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions:
• All elected local bodies- rural and urban would be enabled to
provide leadership and participate in the functioning of district and
sub-district institutions.
• Most important of these are the Rogi Kalyan Samitis(RKS) and the
Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC).
• In particular they would be in charge of, and could be financed for
implementing a number of preventive and promotive health actions
that are to be implemented at the level of the community.
100. Addressing Fiduciary Risks:
The four most important processes where the State should be asked to
create rules that conform to good governance standards as laid out by
the Center and then comply with them would be
a) Procurement and logistics for drugs and devices
b) Transfers and postings
c) Appointment of a regular district chief health and medical officer
or equivalent by due process – since most funds are given to or
spent by district health society
d) Selection of partners and timely payments to them in public private
partnerships and similarly grant-in-aid mechanisms for NGOs.
101. Improving Accountability:
• The policy would be to increase horizontal accountability, by
providing a greater role and participation of local bodies and
encouraging community monitoring and better vertical
accountability through better monitoring, grievance redressal
systems and programme evaluation.
Involving Communities:
• In the process of engagement with communities and empowering
them to contribute, non-governmental organizations with a tradition
of working for community health have an important contribution to
make.
102. Professionalizing Management, Incentivizing
Performance:
• Competence requires formal training for the requisite
management and leadership skills.
• It also requires bringing in at the leadership level, on a
regular basis or through consultancies and partnerships,
the mix of professional knowledge and skills that are
needed.
103. Legal Framework for Health Care and the Right to
Health:
• Mental Health Bill
• The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act
• The bill regulating surrogate pregnancy and assisted
reproductive technologies
• Food Safety Act
• Drugs and Cosmetics Act and the Clinical Establishments
Act.
104. • Health rights bill making health a fundamental right-
• Brazil and Thailand
• The policy question is whether we have reached the level
of economic and health systems development as to make
this a justiciable right- implying that its denial is an
offense.
105. • And whether when health care is a State subject, it is desirable or
useful to make a central law?
• And whether such a law should mainly focus on the enforcement of
public health standards on water, sanitation, food safety, air
pollution etc, or on health rights- access to health care and quality of
health care – i.e on what the state enforces on citizens or on what
the citizen demands of the state?
• Or does the health policy take the position that given the existence
of a large number of laws including the clinical establishments Act,
and the track record on adopting them and implementing them, a
Central law is neither essential nor feasible.
106. Concluding Note: Implementation Framework and the
Way Forward.
• The National Health Policy therefore envisages that an
implementation framework be put in place to deliver on these
policy commitments.
• Such an implementation framework would specify approved
financial allocations and linked to this measurable numerical
output targets and time schedules.
107. • The implementation framework would also reflect learning from
past experience
• Identify administrative reforms required for more appropriate rules
and regulations to governs public financing, institutional design,
human resource policies for this sector, re-structuring of institutions
required for better governance and management at national, state
and district levels
• Measures for improving institutional capacity to deliver, and most
important the division of powers, functions and accountability
between Center and States with respect to health sector performance
108. COMMENTS:
1. High level of absenteeism of doctors in public health facilities
especially in rural and tribal areas
2. Lack of utilisation of available HRH qualified in alternate systems
of medicine with a strong bias against practitioners of thesesystems
of medicine compared to allopathy
Suggestions
1. Improve the availability of essential facilities
2. Provide an incentive for every year served in a difficult area.
3. MBBS and post graduate degree courses can be administered free
of cost to students with a legal provision for compulsory rural service
for 10 years
109. 4. The pay-scale of government doctors needs to be
improved so as to prevent them from turning to private
practice.
5.There should be a diploma course to develop medical
practitioners who can serve as a first line of care in rural
areas
6.There is a need to increase availability of nurses and allied
health professionals through establishment of a separate
regulatory authority to ensure standards in education for the
allied health professionals
7.There should be reservation of seats for rural students in
Medical colleges whose parents live in villages so that after
studying there would be interest to stay close to village and
work in those areas
110. Access, Continuum and Organization of Care Perceived problems:
• Rural areas require the establishment and running of functional
health care facilities.
• Existing public sector health facilities are not equipped to provide
services to the population for lack of resources. Services are
therefore unavailable to the poor.
• Available public health facilities do not have capacity for the large
number of patients seeking healthcare services.
111. • A well established network of health facilities from village to higher
levels must be setup ,as per geographical and population density
norms, with adequate resources of infrastructure, human resources
and drugs and equipment, providing appropriate levels of health
services (primary, secondary and tertiary)
• The capacity of existing health facilities requires to be expanded to
accommodate the large number of patients and reduce waiting times
• The basic unit of health services i.e.primary health centres and
anganwadi centres must be strengthened first in order to develop a
strong health care system.
112. • A suggested method of involving private sector in the provision of
universal health coverage is through the organization of private
sector health facilities into similar provider networks (primary,
secondary and tertiary) which must be a pre-requisite for
empanelment in such as system.
• Cost of care for patients is therefore at the level of the network and
would similarly prevent irrational and excessive care and promote
primary care and disease prevention.
113. Tertiary and Emergency Care
Perceived problems
The condition of emergency wards in public hospitals is poor
Suggestions:
• Tertiary level hospitals (providing AIIMS-like services) must be
available in all districts/States for access to tertiary care services.
District hospitals must be strengthened for this purpose. Capacity
and location of these facilities should be adequate as per population
and geographical need
• A two-wheeler mobile medical ambulance should be introduced
equipped to provide emergency care to accident victims in busy
cities until the patient is transferred to a hospital.
114. Quality of Care
Perceived problems
• Patients do not have the right to quality of care at public health
facilities/Quality of care in public health facilities is the most
important concern
Suggestions:
• There should be a measurable standard for quality of care that
includes components of patient safety, comfort, satisfaction and
clinical outcomes. This must be coupled with systems to motivate
providers and ensure adherence to the standards (incentives,
capacity building, technical support and institutional arrangements
for measurement and certification.
• A ranking system should be developed for all health facilities and
this information must be available in the public domain.
115. Public Health
Perceived problems
• The diseases in rural are as are mainly because of lack of cleanliness
Suggestions:
• Health education and awareness programs and camps should be
implemented
• There should be a focus on population control which will help
ineffective program implementation
• There should be a focus on cleanliness and basic health amenities
• The Municipal Corporations should provide bed nets at subsidized
rates for prevention of mosquito-borne diseases
116. HealthInformationsystems(HIS)
Perceived problems
• Existing telemedicine cannot scale upto entire rural India because of
factors like connectivity and powerissues, infrastructure, field
implementation and cultural acceptability
• The lack of this single data standard prohibits interoperability
between the many evolving information systems in the country
Suggestions:
• Information Communication Technology (ICT) should be effectively
used to bridge the gap between performance and potential
High speed broadband should be installed for use of these services in
remote areas
117. • There should be an integrated Health Management Information
System for an area providing data such as: characteristics of area
(number of villages, number of health facilities, population), different
programmes (NRHM, RNTCP etc), health informatics on disease
outbreak, health survey, inventory management, human resources
• SMS alerts regarding vaccination, health camps should be sent to
citizens
• Hospitals should give a provision for obtaining online appointments
• Rural telemedicine can be made effective by connecting villages to
town doctors
• There should be a National Database of blood donors, state and city
wise
118. Regulation of Drugs, Food and Medical Practice
• There is an urgency to create public toilets
• Self help groups should be made at Anganwadis to create health
awareness
• The quality of midday meals should be improved
• Associated Ministries should work with the Ministry of Health to
improve the condition of water and sanitation
• There should be increased focus on horizontal integration of
programmes with a shift away from vertical planning and
implementation of programmes.
119. IncreasingFinancialResources
Perceived Problems:
• Every year a significant number of people die due to financial
scarcity for health
• Existing health insurance schemes are limited in their use to the
public.The insurance premiums are low just for sake of competition
but the coverage is very limited. Hence there are no benefits to the
Insured
Suggestions:
• Affordable health insurance should be provided to all the families
especially in ruralareas where the poverty levels are high and health
facilities weak
• There is a need for a healthsavings account to decrease sudden out of
pocket expenditure on health
• A nominal amount can be deducted from JanDhan account for health
120. • Public-private partnership model should be implemented for
establishment of hospitals and other needs in health sector
• The government should promote corporate social responsibility in
various areas for increasing availability of resources.
121. Availability of Drugs, Vaccines and Other Consumables
Perceived Problems:
• There are no dispensaries in remote locations Many medicines not
available in government stores as per LogBooks. The pharmacies in
public hospitals do not have all medicines, requiring patients to
purchase drugs at higher cost from private medical stores
Suggestions:
• Medical equipments/healthcare products should be locally
manufactured to decrease expenditure on these devices. There may
be a provision for government medical shops for below poverty line
population
• There should be a provision to open medical shops providing generic
medicines in rural areas
• There should be provision for increased production of medicines and
health products
122. Using Finance as a Tool for Increasing Efficiency
Suggestions:
• NITI Aayog can play a catalytic role in designing incentives that the
central government can offer to the states to allocate more resources
to health
• The center can also seek to maximize efficiencies of scale by
focusing central resource spending on public goods in health that
have cross-state value
• The Government has set in motion the institutional changes
necessary for implementing co-operative federalism, redesigning
many of the centrally sponsored schemes