A Vision Statement for The National Rural Health Mission 2005-2012 By Ishrath Humairahfiled underHealthcare Infrastructureon April 8, 2010 The National Rural Health Mission for the year 2005 to 2012 seeks to provide effective healthcare to rural population throughout the country and to raise public spending on Health from 0.9% of GDP to 2-3% of GDP. Whilst it looks good on paper, it is still a long way to go for our country so fraught with red-tape, corruption, mis-appropriation of funds, and more. Read this all encompassing vision for the rural health of the country, which is available on the Minstry of Health and Family Website for download. Here are the salient points… •The National Rural Health Mission (2005-12) seeks to provide effective healthcare to rural population throughout the country with special focus on 18 states, which have weak public health indicators and/or weak infrastructure. •These 18 States are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh. •The Mission is an articulation of the commitment of the Government to raise public spending on Health from 0.9% of GDP to 2-3% of GDP. •It aims to undertake architectural correction of the health system to enable it to effectively handle increased allocations as promised under the National Common Minimum Programme and promote policies that strengthen public health management and service delivery in the country. •It has as its key components provision of a female health activist in each village; a village health plan prepared through a local team headed by the Health & Sanitation Committee of the Panchayat; strengthening of the rural hospital for effective curative care and made measurable and accountable to the community through Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS); and integration of vertical Health & Family Welfare Programmes and Funds for optimal utilization of funds and infrastructure and strengthening delivery of primary healthcare. •It seeks to revitalize local health traditions and mainstream AYUSH into the public health system. •It aims at effective integration of health concerns with determinants of health like sanitation & hygiene, nutrition, and safe drinking water through a District Plan for Health. •It seeks decentralization of programmes for district management of health. •It seeks to address the inter-State and inter-district disparities, especially among the 18 high focus States, including unmet needs for public health infrastructure. •It shall define time-bound goals and report publicly on their progress. •It seeks to improve access of rural people, especially poor women and children, to equitable, affordable, accountable and effective primary healthcare. Goals of the National Rural Health Mission for the year 2005 to 2012 •Reduction in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) •Universal access to public health services such as Women’s health, child health, water, sanitation & hygiene, immunization, and Nutrition. •Prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, including locally endemic diseases. •Access to integrated comprehensive primary healthcare. •Population stabilization, gender and demographic balance. •Revitalize local health traditions and mainstream AYUSH. •Promotion of healthy life styles. - See more at: healthopine/the-national-rural-health-mission-2005-2012-a-vision-statement-document/#sthash.LGUNWU0i.dpuf
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