Development is potentially a powerful instrument for fighting poverty, improving the health conditions, promoting literacy and quality education among masses. It acts as the key policy instrument, resting on the fact that the functioning of the market cannot, by itself, and activate the signalling response and mobility of economic agents to achieve productive efficiency. Once planning process commenced in India, special emphasis in the preventive, primitive and rehabilitation health services were laid with the formal adoption of the National Health Policy by the Indian Parliament in the year 1983. Thereafter comprehensive network of primary health centre services creation of an army of health volunteers and effective community participation have also been some of the highlights. The main objective of the policy was to achieve an acceptable standard of good health amongst the general population of the country by augmenting existing health infrastructure so that access to health services across the social and geographical expense of the country becomes more equitable. The private sector has been given greater role in the provision of health education and research, health infrastructure and health delivery system. One of the reasons for the poor health status of the people is that the improvement of health delivery system has not kept pace with the needs of a vast majority of the people. It is interesting to infer that practice of self-medication is found to be minimum in respect middle-income households compared to low and high income class. This indicates that the results of the quantitative information derived from descriptive and empirical analysis are valid in relation to the qualitative indicators of the organizational aspects of health care.
Volume 11 | 09-Special Issue
Pages: 1409-1416
DOI: 10.5373/JARDCS/V11/20192757