National Health Policy is an initiative by the Central Government to strengthen the health system in India. This initiative moulds various dimensions of health sectors like disease prevention, promotion of good health via cross-sectoral actions, health investment, strengthening human resources, technological advancements and more. Launched in 2017, the National Health Policy replaces the existing policy previously established in 2002. There are significant changes brought to the policy framework and its objectives.

1. National Health Policy 2017
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2. National Health Policy 2017
 Goal
 Objectives
 Specific Quantitative Goals and
Objectives
• Health Status and Programme
Impact
• Health Systems Performance
• Health Systems strengthening
 Policy thrust
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3. INTRODUCTION
• The National Health Policy, 2017
(NHP, 2017) seeks to reach
everyone in a comprehensive
integrated way to move towards
wellness. It aims at achieving
universal health coverage and
delivering quality health care
services to all at affordable cost.
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4. Goal
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5. Objectives
• Improve health status through
preventive, promotive, curative,
palliative and rehabilitative
services provided through the
public health sector with focus on
quality.
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6. I. Health Status and
Programme Impact
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7. Life Expectancy and healthy life
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8. Mortality by Age and/ or cause
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Reduce infant mortality
rate to 28 by 2019.
Reduce neo-natal mortality to
16 and still birth rate to “single
digit” by 2025.
Reduce Under Five Mortality
to 23 by 2025 and MMR from
current levels to 100 by 2020.

9. Reduction of disease
prevalence/ incidence
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II. Health Systems
Performance

12. Coverage of Health
Services
• Increase utilization of public health facilities by 50%
from current levels by 2025.
• Antenatal care coverage to be sustained above 90%
and skilled attendance at birth above 90% by 2025.
• More than 90% of the newborn are fully immunized
by one year of age by 2025.
• Meet need of family planning above 90% at national
and sub national level by 2025.
• 80% of known hypertensive and diabetic individuals
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13. Cross Sectoral goals related to
health
National/ State level tracking of selected health behaviour.
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Relative reduction in prevalence of current tobacco use by
15% by 2020 and 30% by 2025
Reduction of 40%
in prevalence of
stunting of under-
five children by
Access to safe water and sanitation to all by 2020 (Swachh
Bharat Mission).
Reduction of occupational injury by half from current levels
of 334 per lakh agricultural workers by 2020.

14. III. Health
Systems
strengthening
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Health finance
Increase GDP from the
existing 1.1 5 % to 2.5 %
by 2025.
Increase State sector health
spending to > 8% of their
budget by 2020.
Health expenditure from
the current levels by 25%,
by 2025.

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Health Infrastructure and Human
Resource
Ensure availability of
paramedics and
doctors
Increase community
health volunteers
Establish primary and
secondary care facility

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Management
Information
Strengthen the health
surveillance system
Ensure district - level electronic
database of information on health
system components by 2020.
Health Information Exchanges and
National Health Information
Network by 2025

18. Policy thrust
• Ensuring Adequate Investment - The policy proposes a potentially
achievable target of raising public health expenditure to 2.5% of the
GDP in a time bound manner.
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19. Preventive and Promotive Health
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The Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan
Yatri Suraksha – preventing
deaths due to rail an d road
traffic accidents
Addressing tobacco, alcohol
and substance abuse
Balanced, healthy diets and
regular exercises.

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Preventive and Promotive
Health
Nirbhaya Nari –
action against
gender violence Reduced stress and
improved safety in the
work place
Reducing indoor
and outdoor air
pollution

21. THANK YOU
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