Health, Family Planning and Nutrition in India : First Five Year Plan (1951-56) to Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12)

Contents: Preface. Part I. Health services and India\'s Five Year Plans: I. Health status of India: an introduction: 1. Health care in Indian constitution. 2. World health assembly, 1977. 3. Health indices of India and selected Asian countries. 4. Trends in health care in India. 5. Health indices in rural and urban India. 6. Primary health care. 7. Secondary and tertiary health care. 8. Health care of vulnerable groups. 9. Incidence of major diseases in India. 10. Major public health programmes in India. 11. Shortcomings of the public health system. 12. National health policy (NHP), 2002. 13. Time-bound goals of the Eleventh Five Year Plan. 14. National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). 15. National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). 16. Sarva Swasthya Abhiyan (SSA). 17. Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY). 18. Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH). 19. Growth of private sector in health care. 20. Health insurance. 21. Health education. 22. Medical value travel in India. 23. Indian medical professionals in foreign countries. 24. Issues in healthcare sector. 25. Family planning and welfare. 26. Food and nutrition. 27. Drinking water, sanitation and clean living conditions. 28. Towards e-health. 29. Conclusion. II. India\'s Five Year Plans: an overview: 1. Establishment of the planning commission. 2. Establishment of National Development Council (NDC). 3. Transfer of resources through the planning commission. 4. Centrally sponsored schemes. 5. Size and pattern of central transfers. 6. Objectives of economic planning in India. 7. Financing of the plan. 8. Achievements of economic planning. 9. Failures of economic planning. 10. Conclusion. Part II: Edited extracts from India\'s Five Year Plans on health, family planning and nutrition: 1. First Five Year Plan: 1951-52 to 1955-56. 2. Second Five Year Plan: 1956-57 to 1960-61. 3. Third Five Year Plan: 1961-62 to 1965-66. 4. Annual plan: 1966-67. 5. Annual plan: 1967-68. 6. Annual plan: 1968-69. 7. Fourth Five Year Plan: 1969-70 to 1973-74. 8. Fifth Five Year Plan: 1974-75 to 1978-79. 9. Sixth Five Year Plan: 1980-81 to 1984-85. 10. Seventh Five Year Plan: 1985-86 to 1989-90. 11. Eighth Five Year Plan: 1992-93 to 1996-97. 12. Ninth Five Year Plan: 1997-98 to 2001-02. 13. Tenth Five Year Plan: 2002-03 to 2006-07. 14. Mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Five Year Plan. 15. Eleventh Five Year Plan: 2007-08 to 2011-12. Part III. Health-related statistics of India. Bibliography. Index.

"At the time of independence in 1947, health care services in India were utterly inadequate, urban-based and curative in nature. Majority of the population, especially the poor and those residing in rural areas, did not have access to modern health facilities. Consequently, the morbidity and mortality rates were quite high. Many women died while  seeking abortion to get rid of unwanted pregnancy because access to contraceptives for preventing pregnancies was not available. Similarly, antenatal and postnatal care and services were poor and out of reach for majority of women and their families.

Improvement in the health status of the population has been one of the major thrust areas in social development programmes of India since independence. Over the past six decades, India has built up a vast health infrastructure and manpower at primary, secondary and tertiary care levels in the government, voluntary and private sectors manned by professionals and para-medicals. India has invested massive amounts under the successive Five Year Plans in medical education, training and research which has ensured large manpower from the super-specialists to the auxiliary midwives.

Considerable achievements have been made to improve health standards such as increase in life expectancy, decrease in infant, and maternal mortality, and eradication of small pox and guinea worm. Nevertheless, problems abound. Malnutrition affects a large proportion of the population especially women and children. An unacceptably high proportion of the population continues to suffer and die from new diseases apart from the existing ones. Pregnancy and childbirth related complications also contribute to the suffering and mortality of women.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction on current status of health and health-related services in India. It explains the procedures, objectives, achievements and failures of India\'s Five Year Plans. More importantly, it contains plan-wise documentation of objectives, policies, programmes and achievements in the areas of public health, family planning and welfare, nutrition, sanitation, safe drinking water, clean environment, control of diseases, indigenous systems of medicine, medical education, training and research and other matters pertaining to health. It also includes health-related statistics of India." (jacket)