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SALIENT FEATURES OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY – 2017
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SALIENT FEATURES OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY – 2017
Bhuvaneshwari.G,
Associate Professor, Saveetha College of Nursing, SIMAT, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Abstract
On March 15, 2017 the Union Cabinetapproved the new National Health Policy.The primary aim of the NHP 2017 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 and 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 progressive assurance for health.The target is to achieve
“Health for All”, which has been the basic objective of NHP 2017.
Key words : Health, Policy, Strategies, Goal, Health for All
Introduction quality and lowering the cost of healthcare
The National Health Policy- 2017 was delivery.
approved by the Union Cabinet, Government of Objectives
India on 16 March 2017. This is India's third Improve health status through concerted
National Health policy (NHP); earlier NHPs policy action in all sectors and expand
were released in 1983 and 2002. The goal of the preventive, promotive, curative, palliative and
NHP-2017 is to 'achieve the highest possible rehabilitative services provided through the
level of good health and well-being for all public health sector with focus on quality.
Indians through a preventive and promotive
Specific Quantitative Goals and Objectives
healthcare orientation in all developmental
policies, and to achieve universal access to good Health Status and Programme Impact
quality health care services without anyone 1. Life Expectancy and Healthy Life
having to face financial hardship as a
l Increase life expectancy at birth
consequence.'The Union Cabinet have
from 67.5 to 70 by 2025.
approved the National Health Policy, which
proposes to provide “assured health services to l Establish regular tracking of
all” in the country at an affordable cost. Disability Adjusted Life Years
(DALY) index as a measure of
Goal
burden of disease and its trends by
The policy envisages as its goal the major categories by 2022.
attainment of the highest possible level of health
l Reduction of Total Fertility Rate to
and well-being for all at all ages, through a
2.1 at national and sub-national
preventive and promotive health care
level by 2025.
orientation in all developmental policies, and
universal access to good quality health care 2. Mortality by Age and/ or Cause
services without anyone having to face financial l Reduce under five mortality to 23
hardship as a consequence. This would be by 2025 and MMR from current
achieved through increasing access, improving levels to 100 by 2020.
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l Decrease in proportion of seven priority areas for improving the
households facing catastrophic environment for health:
health expenditure from the l The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
current levels by 25%, by 2025.
l Balanced, healthy diets and regular
2. Health Infrastructure and Human exercises.
Resource
l Addressing tobacco, alcohol and
l Ensure availability of paramedics substance abuse
and doctors as per Indian Public
Health Standard (IPHS) norm in l Yatri Suraksha – preventing deaths
high priority districts by 2020. due to rail an d road traffic
accidents
l Increase community health
l Nirbhaya Nari – action against
volunteers to population ratio as
gender violence
per IPHS norm, in high priority
districts by 2025. l Reduced stress and improved safety
in the work place
l Establish primary and secondary
care facility as per norms in high l Reducing indoor and outdoor air
priority districts (population as well pollution
as time to reach norms) by 2025. 3. Organization of Public Health Care
3. Health Management Information Delivery - The policy proposes seven
key policy shifts in organizing health
l Ensure district - level electronic
care services.
database of information on health
system components by 2020. The Following are the Salient Features of the
National Health Policy -2017
l Strengthen the health surveillance
system and establish registries for l It aims to raise public healthcare
diseases of public health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP from
importance by 2020. current 1.4%, with more than two-
thirds of those resources going towards
l Establish federated integrated primary healthcare.
health information architecture,
Health Information Exchanges l It envisages providing a larger package
and National Health Information of assured comprehensive primary
Network by 2025. health care through the 'Health and
Wellness Centres'.
Policy Thrust
l It is a comprehensive package that will
1. Ensuring Adequate Investment - The include care for major non-
policy proposes a potentially achievable communicable diseases (NCDs),
target of raising public health geriatric healthcare, mental health,
expenditure to 2.5% of the GDP in a palliative care and rehabilitative care
time bound manner. services.
2. Preventive and Promotive Health - The l It proposes free diagnostics, free drugs
policy identifies coordinated action on and free emergency and essential
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