National Health Profile 2018

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National Health Profile 2018

Various National Programmes/Schemes/Policies in Health Sector in India

Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) (2018)

Ayushman Bharat is National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable

families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage upto 5 lakh rupees per family per year for

secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun

Jaitely while presenting the General Budget 2018-19 in Parliament announced this programme. Ayushman Bharat

- National Health Protection Mission will subsume the on-going centrally sponsored schemes - Rashtriya Swasthya

Bima Yojana (RSBY) and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS). This will be the world’s largest

government funded health care programme.

Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed

to take cashless benefits from any public/private empanelled hospitals across the country. The beneficiaries can

avail benefits in both public and empanelled private facilities. To control costs, the payments for treatment will be

done on package rate (to be defined by the Government in advance) basis. States would need to have State Health

Agency (SHA) to implement the scheme.

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) (2016)

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan envisages to improve the quality and coverage of Antenatal Care

(ANC) including diagnostics and counselling services as part of the Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child and

Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) Strategy. Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, launched

PMSMA on 04-November-2016. PMSMA guarantees a minimum package of antenatal care services to women

in their 2nd / 3rd trimesters of pregnancy at designated government health facilities. PMSMA is based on the

promise — that if every pregnant woman in India is examined by a physician and appropriately investigated at

least once during the PMSMA and then appropriately followed up — the process can result in reduction in the

number of maternal and neonatal deaths in our country.

National Health Mission

The National HealthMission (NHM) encompasses its two Sub-Missions, the National Rural HealthMission (NRHM)

and the newly launched National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). The main programmatic components include

Health System Strengthening in rural and urban areas- Reproductive-Maternal- Neonatal-Child and Adolescent

Health (RMNCH+A), and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases. The NHM envisages achievement of

universal access to equitable, affordable & quality health care services that are accountable and responsive to

people’s needs.

3.1 National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) (2005)

National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in April 2005 and it morphed into National Health Mission

(NHM) with launch of National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) during 2013. Thereafter, NRHM and NUHM became

two sub-missions under the overarching NHM.

NRHM seeks to provide equitable, affordable and quality health care to the rural population, especially the

vulnerable groups. Under the NRHM, the Empowered Action Group (EAG) States as well as North Eastern

States, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh have been given special focus. The thrust of the mission is