Mention three features of national health policy of India
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Total health expenditure by govt. of India under this policy is targeted to be 2.5% of the GDP.
Universal access to quality healthcare services in public hospitals, meaning cost of serving patients through medical machinery such as diagnostics, emergency etc would go down such that even poorest of poor can afford.
One interesting feature is to Promote research on tribal medicines. (These are those medicines which are mainly practiced by tribal in India and are claimed to be highly effective)
Establishing a Public Health Management Cadre in each state. (The main function of such cadre would be to manage medical services in the state.) One such Cadre was in news in 2014 for Chattisgarh (Health management cadre in Chhattisgarh soon - Times of India)
It has plans to setup a safe and cost-effective mechanism for prevention & therapy, called AYUSH(Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Homeopathy) by especially promoting Yoga in academics and professions.
some key features are :
Universal access to quality healthcare services in public hospitals, meaning cost of serving patients through medical machinery.
To Promote research on tribal medicines.
Establishing a Public Health Management Cadre in each state.