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National Health Profile 2018

1.2 Family Welfare

The Department of Family Welfare (FW) is responsible for aspects relating to family welfare, especially in

reproductive health, maternal health, paediatrics, information, education and communications; cooperation with

NGOs and international aid groups; and rural health services. FamilyWelfare includes Direction and Administration,

Training, Research and Evaluation, Rural Family Welfare Services, Urban Family Welfare Services, Maternity and

Child Health, Transport, Compensation, Mass Education, Selected area Programmes (including India population

project), Reproductive and Child Health Programme, Assistance to Public sector and other undertakings, Assistance

to Local Bodies, Other Services and Supplies, International Co-operation, Other Expenditure.

1.3 Others

For Central government, it includes Medical reimbursement/ Medical Treatment expenditure, Other departments

expenditure within the health demand, Secretariat Social Service Expenditure (2251), and medical expenditure

by Ministry of Defence, Labour & Employment, Railways, Science and Technology, Mines and Post. For State

Governments this definition would exclude medical expenditure by Ministry of Defence, Labour & Employment,

Railways, Science and Technology, Mines and Post.

Apart from the above 3 categories of public expenditure, we further define the components of

National Health

Mission

, one of the main programmes of the government. It includes the following 8 components:

NRHM-RCH Flexible Pool which includes:

RCH Flexible Pool, Routine Immunisation, Pulse Polio

Immunisation, Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Programme

Health System Strengthening under NRHM

National Urban Health Mission - Flexible Pool

Flexible Pool for Communicable Diseases which includes

National Vector Borne Disease Control

Program, National T.B. Control Programme, National Leprosy Eradication Programme, Integrated

Disease Surveillance Programme

Flexible Pool for Non-Communicable Diseases, Injury & Trauma which includes

National Programme

for Control of Blindness, National Mental Health Programme, Health Care for the Elderly, National

Programme for Prevention &Control of Deafness, National Tobacco Control Programme, National Oral

Health Programme, Assistance to States for Capacity Building, National Programme for Prevention

and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, CVD and Stroke, Other New Initiatives under Non-Communicable

Diseases.

Miscellaneous Programmes which includes

(1) Forward Linkages to NRHM and (2) Pilot Projects

which includes Sports Medicine, Deafness, Leptospirosis Control, Control of Human Rabies, Medical

Rehabilitation, Oral Health, Fluorosis

Human Resources for Health

Finally, EAG or Empowered Action Group of States refers to

the 8 eight states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan,

Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand which are relatively populous resulting in

challenges in socio-economic development.

AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE PER HOSPITALISATION CASE:

Expenditure on Hospitalization and Level of Living:

Average expenditure incurred on a case of hospitalization

by households belonging to quintile classes of monthly per capita consumer expenditure, widely considered to