Public Health System in India
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The national HIV/AIDS Control Programme. 3. Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (Mdr-tb). 4. Blinding eye diseases in leprosy. 5. Health inequity and women’s Self-Help Groups. 6. Guaranteeing the human tight to health. 7. The female foeticide: a social issue. 8. Domestic violence and symptoms of gynecologic morbidity among women. 9. Adolescent male reproductive health. 10. Malnutrition and the right to food. Bibliography. Index.
India has relatively poor health outcomes, despite having a well-developed administrative system, good technical skills in many fields and an extensive network of pubic health institutions for research, training and diagnostics. Public health system in India suffers from many problems which includes insufficient funding, shortage of facilities leading to overcrowding and severe shortage of trained health personnel.
Apart form the modern system of medicine, traditional and indigenous medicinal systems like Ayurvedic and Unani systems are in practice throughout the county. The Modern System of Medicine is regulated by the Medical Council of India, whereas the Alternative Systems recognized by Government of India are regulated by the Department of AYUSH under the Ministry of Health, Government of India. PHC’s are non-existent in most places, due to poor pay and scarcity of resources. Patients generally prefer private health clinics. The lack of resources, which is acute in some states, is certainly a contributing factor to the poor performance of the primary healthcare system.
India has relatively poor health outcomes, despite having a well-developed administrative system, good technical skills in many fields and an extensive network of pubic health institutions for research, training and diagnostics. Public health system in India suffers from many problems which includes insufficient funding, shortage of facilities leading to overcrowding and severe shortage of trained health personnel.
Apart form the modern system of medicine, traditional and indigenous medicinal systems like Ayurvedic and Unani systems are in practice throughout the county. The Modern System of Medicine is regulated by the Medical Council of India, whereas the Alternative Systems recognized by Government of India are regulated by the Department of AYUSH under the Ministry of Health, Government of India. PHC’s are non-existent in most places, due to poor pay and scarcity of resources. Patients generally prefer private health clinics. The lack of resources, which is acute in some states, is certainly a contributing factor to the poor performance of the primary healthcare system.
