health agencies is a community topic .

1. NATIONAL HEALTH
AGENCIES
RAJOSI KHANRA

2. DEFINITIONS
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
Health agencies are public agencies or private organisations that are primarily engaged in
providing skilled or paraprofessional health care to individuals in out-of-hospital settings.
National Health Agencies are organisations that have its own administrative body or
committee that raises funds through its members or from private sources. It has paid or
voluntary staff. Works for health promotion, health education and health legislation, etc.
HEALTH
HEALTH AGENCIES
NATIONAL HEALTH AGENCIES

3. PURPOSES OF
HEALTH AGENCIES
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4. ● Rendering curative services.
● Improvement in nutritional status.
● Provision for promotive and preventive care.
● Reduction in population growth rate.
● Improvement in sanitation facilities.

5. ● Development of manpower resources.
● Provision for safe water and food supply
● Increasing literacy rate
● Reducing the levels of property

6. LISTS OF
NATIONAL HEALTH AGENCIES

7. 1. Indian Red Cross Society
2. Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh
3. Indian Council for Child Welfare
4. Tuberculosis Association of India
5. Bharat Sevak Samaj
6. Central Social Welfare Board
7. The Kasturba Memorial Fund
8. Family Planning Association of India
9. All India Women's Conference
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8. INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
Abbreviation - IRCS
Founded - 3rd march,1920
Founder - Claude Hill
Area served - India
Head quarter - new delhi

9. The Indian Red Cross is a voluntary
humanitarian organisation having a
network of over 700 branches throughout
the country, providing relief in times of
disasters/emergencies and promoting
health & care of the vulnerable people and
communities.

10. President of IRCS
Chairman
Vice- chairman
Managing body
Secretary general
Join secretary
Deputy secretary
Directors

11. ACTIVITES
MCH
SERVICES
DISASTER
RELIEF
HEALTH
EDUCATION
DISASTER
RESPONSE
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HOSPITAL
WELFARE
DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS
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NURSING
SERVICES
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FIRST AID
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AMBULANCE
SERVICES
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BLOOD
SERVICES

12. INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CHILD WELFARE
Abbreviation - ICCW
Founded - 1952
Services - Children
Indian Council For Child Welfare aims to secure
Indian children and those opportunities and
facilities which are necessary to develop them
physically mentally,spiritually and socially in a
healthy and normal manner.
-It is connected with the international children
welfare council. It is voluntarily engaged in
promoting development services for children.

13. ACTIVITES
Day care centre
These centres provide services to small children (0-3 years) by giving
food, care and protection. The scheme has been found very fruitful
and essential for working mothers.
Pre-school
These centres cater to children ageing between 3 and 6 years. Non
Formal education is implemented and nutrition is also given to them.
Orphanages
The department provides grant-in-aid to voluntary organisations
properly registered under Society Registration Act and who are
engaged in the welfare of orphans.
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14. ACTIVITES
Recreational centre cum children's library
Recreational centre cum children's library has been opened at
different places to enable the children to spend their leisure time in a
beneficial manner and to guide them in their future lives. Selected
books and material have been supplied to these centres for this
purpose.
State council for child welfare
It was constituted to provide services to the children in need of care
and protection and to promote child development in line with the
aims and objectives of the Indian council of child welfare.
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15. Others
● Advocating children’s rights
● Providing sponsorship under privileged to pursue
school education
● Special project on street and working children
● Scrutiny of adaptation cases
● Rehabilitation programmes for abandoned children
● Special focus on girl child
● Conduction of national integration and adventure
camps

16. Abbreviation - FPAI
Started in - 1949
Headquarter - Mumbai
FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

17. ● FPAI has been recognized as India’s Leading and
Largest Reproduction and Sexual Health Organization.
● FPAI strengthens a voluntary and non government
commitment to promote sexual and reproductive health
and rights including family planning. It supports the
right of individuals to reproductive choices including
legal and safe abortion, works toward reducing spread
of HIV/AIDS and increasing access to education and
services to all specialties of the young and eliminating
violence,discrimination and abuse.

18. ACTIVITIES
● Pathological/diagnosis facilities
● Health education given to
students
● Advice couples to plan birth
spacing and family
● Conducts training programs for
doctors,health visitors and social
workers
● Provides sexual health program
for
categories(youth,parents,educato
rs,disabled,mentally
handicapped)
● Maternal and child health care
● Treating infertility
● Providing contraceptives
including emergency
contraceptives
● Facilities for abortion
● Diagnosis and treatment of
reproductive tract infections and
sexually transmitted infections
● Prevention and management of
HIV/AIDS
● Counselling services

19. TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
Abbreviation - TAI
Started in - 1939
Headquarter - Delhi

20. TAI basically encourages prevention,control,treatment and relief of
tuberculosis.
It is a voluntary organisation and is a registered society. Some of
the institution run by this association are:
1. Lady Linlithgow Tuberculosis Sanatorium,Kasauli
2. King Edward vii Sanatorium, Dharampur
3. Tuberculosis hospital, Mehrauli
4. New Delhi tuberculosis centre

21. 1. To prevention, control, treatment and relief from tuberculosis.
2. To undertake the research work and investigation on subjects
concerning tuberculosis and allied chest diseases.
OBJECTIVES

22. ACTIVITES
★ Publication of the prestigious Indian Journals of Tuberculosis quarterly since 1953.
★ Supplementary Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program and DOTS
services of Government of India.
★ Involvement of community leaders in the control efforts.
★ Organising TB seal campaign every year to raise funds.
★ Providing up to date quality diagnostic and treatment services.
★ Increasing public awareness about the disease.
★ Enlisting cooperation of patients and their families in seeking proper diagnosis
and to complete treatment.

23. Abbreviation - 1950
Headquarter - New Delhi
It is an old and prestigious body of people
committed towards
treatment,rehabilitation of leprosy
patients and elimination of leprosy from
India.
HIND KUSHT NIVARAN
SANGH

24. OBJECTIVES
● To carry out research on various
aspects of leprosy.
● To provide short courses of
training and treatment of leprosy.
● To carry out propaganda.
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25. ACTIVITES
Production and
dissemination of
health education
activities and
publicity material
on leprosy
Publication of
quarterly Indian
journal of Leprosy
and bimonthly
news bulletin
Kusht Vinashak for
leprosy workers
and the general
public
Production and
distribution of
leprosy seals to
create awareness
about leprosy and
help other
organisations in
raising funds for
their work.
Conducting
training courses
on nine months
duration for
physiotherapy
technicians
through leprosy
training centres,
i.c. Naini in
Allahabad. Uttar
Pradesh and
Purulia in West-
Bengal
Organising the All
India Leprosy
Workers
Conference and
Regional Leprosy
Workers
Conferences in
collaboration with
the state branches
and other
voluntary
Organisations.
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26. ACTIVITES
❏ Maintaining a house called "Shanti Illam" at Vellore (Tamil Nadu) where
leprosy patients who come for surgical treatment at the Christian Medical
College and Hospital, Vellore are provided free boarding and lodging
facilities.
❏ Providing assistance to voluntary organisations and leprosy patients.
❏ Running of two mobile leprosy treatment units in two districts of Delhi
(Northeast and West) with funds provided by the Government of India .

27. ALL INDIA
WOMEN’S
CONFERENCE
Abbreviation - AIWC
Started in - 1925
Headquarter - Delhi
Beneficent - women
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28. AIWS is a non governmental
organisation. It is a women’s
voluntary welfare organisation
,working for women’s
development and empowerment.
OBJECTIVES
1. To work for a society based on the principle of social justice, personal integrity
and equal rights and opportunities for all.
2. To secure recognition of the inherent right of every human being to work and
to achieve the essentials of life by planned social distribution.
3. To support the claim of every citizen
to right to enjoy basic civil liberties.
4. To work actively for the general
program and welfare of women and
children.
5. To work for permanent international
unity and world peace.

29. ACTIVITES
Running MCH clinics, health centres,adult educations centres.
Organise health and family welfare and population education
program
Organise educational program
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Socio economic activites.
Eradicate poverty among women

30. ACTIVITES
Establish the rural programs.
Establish computer training centres.
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31. Abbreviation - AIBRS
Started in - 1946
Headquarter - Mumbai
It is India’s largest voluntary organisation.
It focuses on coordinating different
institutions that work with the same goal.
ALL INDIA RELIEF SOCIETY

32. OBJECTIVES
Prevention of preventable and care of curable visual
impairment. Socioeconomic, rehabilitation of visually
challenged through education, training and employment.
FUNCTION
➢ Prevention of blindness
➢ Organise eye relief camps
➢ Rehabilitation
➢ Camps for cataract screening and surgery
➢ Distribution of free spectacles for refractory correction.

33. Abbreviation - CSWB
Started in - 1953
CENTRAL SOCIAL WELFARE
BOARD
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34. The central social welfare board is an
autonomous organisation under the
general administrative control of the
Ministry of education. It is also known as
‘Kendriya Samaj Kalyan Board.’They carry
out welfare activities for promoting
voluntarism, providing technical and
financial assistance to the voluntary
organisations for the general welfare of
family, women and children
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35. FUNCTION
● Surveying the needs and requirements of voluntary welfare
organisations in the country.
● Promoting and setting up social welfare organisations in the country.
● Condensed courses of education and vocational training.
● Awareness generation programme for rural and poor women.
● To help lower middle class women in urban areas to supplement their
family income by doing paid work.
● The activities of project comprise teaching of craft,social
education,literacy classes,distribution of milk,supplementary food to
pregnant women,
● To provide rehabilitative services to women and children who are
victim of family maladjustments .

36. Bharat Sevak Samaj was formed in
1952. It is non political , non
government , voluntary organisation
for voluntary work and to enlist
people’s participation in National
reconstruction programmes.
BHARAT SEVAK SAMAJ

37. -Improvement in environmental
sanitationinruralareas.
-Education on environmental
health.
To help people to achieve health by
theirownactionsandefforts.
OBJECTIVE FUNCTION

38. KASTURBA MEMORIAL FUND
Kasturba Memorial Fund was created in
commemoration of Kasturba Gandhi after her
death in 1944. The fund was raised for the
improvement of women’s status.
OBJECTIVE
To raise the standard of Indian women.
FUNCTION
This fund is utilised for the programmes and
activities which benefit the women especially in
villages through gram sevikas.

40. CONCLUSION
National agencies have a vital role in
health care systems. These are
voluntary, non governmental, non
profit making, non political agencies
providing voluntary help to improve
the health of the population and raise
their living standards.

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