29-12-2020 | 12:38 PM
Vision 2035
NITI Aayog recently published a white paper entitled Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India. It is part of the work to improve the health services of India.
The paper calls for the integration of three-tier healthcare programmes in India viz. Primary, secondary and tertiary Ayushman Bharat.
Objectives:
To make the public health monitoring system more predictive and sensitive and to improve preparedness for intervention at all levels.
Improving processes for the exchange of data between the Center and the States.
Note:
According to the White Paper, 75 percent of re-emerging or emerging illnesses are zoonotic and 61 percent of deaths and 55 percent of injury are caused by non-communicable diseases of existing health conditions.
