Mention any 3 features of National Health Policy
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Sone Features of national health policy
1. It aims to raise public healthcare expenditure to 2.5% of GDP from current 1.4%, with more than two-thirds of those resources going towards primary healthcare.
2. It envisages providing a larger packageof assured comprehensive primary healthcare through the ‘Health and Wellness Centers’.
3. It is a comprehensive package that will include care for major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), geriatric healthcare, mental health, palliative care and rehabilitative care services.
4. It proposes free diagnostics, free drugs and free emergency and essential healthcare services in all public hospitals in order to provide healthcare access and financial protection.
5. It seeks to establish regular tracking of disability adjusted life years (DALY) Index as a measure of burden of disease and its major categories trends by 2022.
6. It aims to improve and strengthen the regulatory environment by putting in place systems for setting standards and ensuring quality of healthcare.
7. It also looks at reforms in the existing regulatory systems both for easing drugs and devices manufacturing to promote Make in India and also reforming medical education.
8. It advocates development of mid-level service providers, public health cadre, nurse practitioners to improve availability of appropriate health human resource.
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