The document discusses various health care agencies in India. It outlines the functions of health care agencies as promoting health, preventing illness, and providing curative services, with the aim of reducing mortality and morbidity rates. It then describes different types of health care agencies, including hospital agencies (both private and government), primary health centers, community health centers, rural hospitals, and more. It also discusses day care centers, health insurance schemes like ESI and CGHS, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, clinics, dispensaries, and more.

1. HEALTH CARE
AGENCIES

2. Introduction
• India is rich with many health care agencies
• Function: to promote health, to prevent illness and
to provide curative services
• Aim : to reduce the mortality and morbidity rates

3. Which can be achieved by the following ,
Provision for promotive and preventive care
Rendering curative services
Reduction in population growth rate
Improvement in nutritional status
Improvement in sanitation facilities
Development of manpower resources
Provision for safe water and food supply
Increasing the literacy rate
Reducing the levels of poverty

4. Types of health care agencies

5. Types of health care agencies
• Hospital agencies
– It may be private or government
– IP and OP services
– Govt ,
• PHC
• CHC
• Rural hospital
• Taluk hospitals
• District hospitals
• Specialist hospital
• Teaching institutions

6. Types of health care agencies
• Day care centers
– “Creche” -provided for the infants and children,
where parents are working

9. Types of health care agencies
• Health insurance schemes
– E.S.I (Employees state insurance)
• Introduced in 1948
• Employees working under the scheme are given,
– maternity benefits
– Medical care in cash and kind
– Benefits in case of employment injury
– Pension for dependents on death of worker due to employment
injury

10. Types of health care agencies
• Health insurance schemes
– Central government health scheme (CGHS)
• Introduced in 1954
• Covers employees of autonomous organizations
• Retired central government servants
• Widows receiving family pension
• MP’s
• Ex- governors and retired judges

11. Types of health care agencies
– Rehabilitation centers
• Assist the clients to restore their health
• Nurses co-ordinate the client activities and ensure that
clients are complying with their treatments
• Need specialized skills and knowledge

13. Types of health care agencies
– Home for aged
• Nurses look after both physical and psychological needs
of the aged clients
– Nursing homes, clinics and dispensaries:
• Treatments of minor ailments is carried out
– Defense medical services
• Provides medical care to defense personnel (Armed
forces medical services)

15. Types of health care agencies
– Hospices
• Family centered care
• During the course of terminal illness
• Physical ,physiological and spiritual care
• Symptom management is the main aspect of care

16. Types of health care agencies
– Voluntary health agencies
• These are organizations administered by autonomous boards who
conduct programmes to provide health services, health education
or relative activities for the improvement of public health
– National voluntary agencies
» Indian Red Cross Society
» Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh
» Bharath Sevak Samaj
» Indian Council For Child Welfare
– International agencies
» Rockfeller foundation
» CARE
» Ford foundation

17. Types of health care agencies
– Indigenous system of medicine
• Ayurvedha
• Siddha
• Unani
• Homeopathy