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National Health Profile 2018
Needs of National and State Programme Managers
Program planning involves identifying and projecting most critical needs of the different programme and
community and by analyzing their existing ability to address those requirements. National and State Programme
Managers draw their implementation plan keeping in consideration the gap analysis and priorities, presenting the
case to higher –ups, executing the plan and evaluating the outcome of the efforts, and reporting that outcome
back to partners, stakeholders, and to policy makers.
Needs of Community:
Community is a major stakeholder in the healthcare system where all the planning, decisions, services and
provisions get concentrated, and eventually are the beneficiary of healthcare services and related interventions.
In the current scenario, it is widely advocated that role of the community should not only be limited to recipient of
services but it should also have community participation in decisionmaking. Community decisionmaking primarily
involves decision making at two level; individual level and community at large. Information on availability, and
affordability of health services influence access to health services.
Needs of Private Providers:
Private providers constitute a significant part of the health system in India which ranges from single providers to
corporate hospitals. Private provider behavior is influenced by the interplay of policy-makers who set policy, enact
legislation and enforce regulations. Similarly, it is also affected by purchasing power of populations and providers’
experience, skills and motivations to deal with patient, government and their competitor. However, focusing on
coverage, quality, cost, along with policy-makers, providers and people, serves as a helpful aide-memoire for
private providers to organize their service better and eventually leading to service improvement.
Data Variables
Over 850 variables have been identified from extensive literature review of Indian Public Health Standard
Guidelines (IPHS), individual national programme operational guidelines And National Quality Asuurance
Guidelines for public health facilities.
A Census at national level for health resource enumeration will be carried out to obtain data from all public
and private health facilities of 29 States and 7 Union Territories, concurrently, and mapping all healthcare
establishments in all the districts across the country. All the public health facilities including District Hospitals,
Sub-Divisional Hospital, Taluka-Community Health Centre, Primary Health Centre, Sub Centre, other government
hospitals and private hospitals , private doctors, diagnostic labs and chemists present nationwide shall be covered
in the Census.