Comprehensive Primary Health Care

Objectives

Under Ayushman Bharat, scale-up a new vision for comprehensive primary health care across the country, built on the platform of health and wellness centres (HWCs), to:

  • Provide quality ambulatory services for an inclusive package of diagnostic, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care, close to the people.
  • Deliver preventive and promotion services, and action on the ground to tackle determinants of ill health locally.
  • Create a mass movement for Healthy India (Swasth Bharat Jan Andolan).

Current Situation

The National Health Policy (NHP), 2017, envisages comprehensive primary health care delivered through HWCs.

The policy also commits that two-thirds or more of government spending will be targeted ....

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