The document outlines the objectives and functioning of national health programs, emphasizing health promotion and public health policy. It asserts that health is a comprehensive state of well-being that allows individuals to manage their health and environment effectively. The National Health Program aims to enhance population health through lifestyle changes, supportive environments, and reduced health inequalities.

1. NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS
OBJECTIVES, FUNCTIONING, AND
OUTCOMES
D. R. Chandravanshi
Asst. Professor (Adhoc)
S L T I N S T I T U T E O F P H A R M A C E U T I C A L S C I E N C E S ,
G U R U G H A S I D A S V I S H W A V I D Y A L A Y A , B I L A S P U R C . G .

2. CONTENT
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Health promotion
• Public health policy
• Guiding principles of NHP

3. OBJECTIVES
LIFE STYLE
HEALTH
SERVICES
ENVIRONMENT

4. INTRODUCTION
• "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity.“ Health also means the capacities and abilities
to play useful roles in society, to adjust ourselves to environmental changes and to
cope with all related problems.
• The WHO strategy "Health for all” the philosophy of health promotion underline
that health is:
• The value that empowers individuals or groups of people in accomplishing their
aspirations, satisfying the need for success, changing and managing the
environment,
• The wealth that ensures the society its social and economic development; only
healthy society can create cultural values, enlarge national property and enjoy high
quality of life,
• The means to achieve better quality of life.

5. HEALTH PROMOTION
The modified National Health Program is based on the health promotion concept
and strategy. Health promotion helps people:
• To increase the control over own health (identification of own health problems),
and
• To improve the health condition by making choices and taking decisions
conducive to health, increasing community awareness, developing competences to
solve health problems and increasing health potential. Health promotion covers
five areas of activities:
• The development of public health policy,
• The promotion of living and working environment supportive to health,

6. CONTI…
• The advancement of individual skills to promote health,
• The reorientation of health services.
• Health promotion is also defined as a skill to interfere into social systems
and to encourage people to promote healthy environment. To this end, the
NHP tends to "incorporate" health issues into different social systems
(politics, economy, education, sport, science, family etc.)

7. PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
• Each sector of economic and social policy (e.g. wages, taxes, social security,
education, transport etc.) is related to health.
• Therefore, health policy should be developed at all levels and by all actors
participating in public life. Bearing this in mind, the present NHP sets the
objectives of the public health policy which has replaced the former idea of the
state health policy.
• That permits to bring the governing mechanisms closer to people, moving them
from the central level of the management and the state administration to the
local level, committing at the same time all people and public institutions.

8. • One superior, strategic goal: improving the health status of the population and
enhancing the health-related quality of life;
• The three key areas of activities aimed at accomplishing the strategic goal: -
changing lifestyles,
• Developing the living and working environment supportive to health, and
• Reducing inequalities in health and access to health services
• Many positive changes in the health status of the population are expected due
to the accomplishment of tasks identified in accordance with each target. It is
also hoped that adverse effects of major health problems will be also reduced.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF NHP

9. REFERENCES
• Health Programmes / Wellness | National Health Portal Of India
(nhp.gov.in)