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The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983 and updated in 2002, and then again updated in 2017. The recent four main updates in 2017 mention the need to focus on the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, the emergence of the robust healthcare industry, growing incidences of unsustainable expenditure due to healthcare costs, and rising economic growth ...
Health in India. India's population in 2021 as per World Bank is 1.39 billion. [1] Being the world's most populous country and one of its fastest-growing economies, India experiences both challenges and opportunities in context of public health. India is a hub for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries; world-class scientists, clinical ...
Indian healthcare system has been historically dominated by provisioning of medical care and neglected public health. [2] 11.9% of all maternal deaths and 18% of all infant mortality in the world occurs in India, ranking it the highest in the world in 2021. [3][4] 36.6 out of 1000 children are dead by the time they reach the age of 5.
2 Outcome of cardiovascular disease care. 3 See also. 4 ... This is a list of countries by quality of healthcare as published by the Organisation for Economic ...
H. Health care companies of India (3 C, 49 P) Health insurance in India (2 C, 11 P) Health law in India (1 C, 7 P) Health programmes in India (26 P) Hospital networks in India (3 C, 30 P)
Spending on health care rose to 1.7 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000, nearly triple the 0.6 percent of GDP spent in 1989. But during the past decade, improvement in health care has slowed. Paraguay spends less per capita (US$13–20 per year) than most other Latin American countries.
A primary health centre Endla, Rajasthan. Primary Health Centre (PHC s), sometimes referred to as public health centres, [1][2] are state-owned rural and urban health care facilities in India. [3][4] They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for minor surgeries. They are part of the government-funded public health ...
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), now under National Health Mission [1] is an initiative undertaken by the government of India to address the health needs of under-served rural areas. Launched on 12 April 2005 by then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , the NRHM was initially tasked with addressing the health needs of 18 states that ...