National Health Policy 2017

National Health Policy 2017

Aiming to provide healthcare in an “assured manner” to all, the NHP 2017 strives to address current and emerging challenges arising from the ever-changing socio-economic, technological and epidemiological scenarios.

Features

The policy advocates a progressively incremental assurance-based approach.
It denotes an important change towards a comprehensive primary health care package which includes care for major NCDs (non-communicable diseases), mental health, geriatric health care, palliative care and rehabilitative care services.
It envisages providing larger package of assured comprehensive primary health care through the ‘Health and Wellness Centres’
The policy proposes free drugs, free diagnostics and free emergency and essential health care services in all public hospitals in a bid to provide access and financial protection.
It also envisages a three-dimensional integration of AYUSH systems encompassing cross referrals, co-location and integrative practices across systems of medicines.
It also seeks an effective grievance redressal mechanism.
Health Expenditure: The policy proposes raising public health expenditure to 2.5% of the GDP by 2025.

Targets:

To increase life expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025 and reduce infant mortality rate to 28 by 2019.
To reduce mortality of children under-five years of age to 23 by the year 2025.
To allocate a major proportion of resources to primary care and intends to ensure availability of two beds per 1,000 population distributed in a manner to enable access within golden hour (the first hour after traumatic injury, when the victim is most likely to benefit from emergency treatment).
To achieve the global 2020 HIV target under 90-90-90 UNAIDS Target according to which by 2020,
- 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status.
- 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy.
- 90% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.

Source: TH

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