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National Health Profile 2018

on establishing a fully functional, community owned, decentralized health delivery system with inter-sectoral

convergence at all levels, to ensure simultaneous action on a wide range of determinants of health such as water,

sanitation, education, nutrition, social and gender equality. Institutional integration within the fragmented health

sector was expected to provide a focus on outcomes, measured against Indian Public Health Standards for all

health facilities.

3.2 National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) (2013)

The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) as a sub-mission of National Health Mission (NHM) was approved by

the Cabinet on 1st May 2013.

NUHM envisages to meet health care needs of the urban population with the focus on urban poor, by making

available to them essential primary health care services and reducing their out of pocket expenses for treatment.

NUHM would endeavour to achieve its goal through:-

Need based city specific urban health care system to meet the diverse health care needs of the urban poor

and other vulnerable sections.

ii)

Institutional mechanism and management systems to meet the health-related challenges of a rapidly

growing urban population.

iii)

Partnershipwith community and local bodies for amore proactive involvement in planning, implementation,

and monitoring of health activities.

iv)

Availability of resources for providing essential primary health care to urban poor.

Partnerships with NGOs, for profit and not for profit health service providers and other stakeholders.

It would primarily focus on slum dwellers and other marginalized groups like rickshaw pullers, street vendors,

railway and bus station coolies, homeless people, street children, construction site workers.

National Programme for Prevention & Management of Burn Injuries (NPPMBI) (2014)

NPPMBI as full-fledged programme was approved by Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 6th

February, 2014, for covering 67 State Government Medical Colleges and 19 District Hospitals during the 12th Five

Year Plan. The Goal of NPPMBI is to ensure prevention of Burn Injuries, provide timely and adequate treatment

in case burn injuries do occur, so as to reduce mortality, complications and ensuing disabilities and to provide

effective rehabilitative interventions if disability has set in. The objective of NPPMBI is to reduce incidence,

mortality, morbidity and disability due to Burn Injuries and improve awareness among the general masses and

vulnerable groups especially the women, children, industrial and hazardous occupational workers.

The National Mental Health Policy (2014)

The National Mental Health Policy, announced in October, 2014, is based, inter-alia, on the values and principles of

equity, justice, integrated and evidence based care, quality, participatory and holistic approach to mental health.

The vision of the National Health Policy is to promote mental health, prevent mental illness, enable recovery from

mental illness, promote de-stigmatization and desegregation, and ensure socio-economic inclusion of persons

affected by mental illness by providing accessible, affordable and quality health and social care to all persons

through their life-span, within a rights-based framework.