Vision 2035  

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• 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.