Health Care
Ques 1: - Describe in detail healthcare delivery system in India?
Ans: - The Healthcare delivery system broadly consists of the following sectors or agencies:-
1. PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR
a) Primary Health Care
Primary health centres.
Sub- Centres.
b) Hospitals/Health Centres
Community Health Centres.
Rural hospitals.
District hospitals.
Teaching hospitals.
Specialist hospitals.
c) Health Insurance Schemes
Employees States Insurance Scheme (ESIS).
Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS).
d) Other agencies
Defence.
Railways.
2. PRIVATE SECTOR
a) Private hospitals, polyclinics, dispensaries and nursing homes.
b) General Practitioners and Clinics, Private hospital includes hospitals run on profit basis, no loss- no profit basis and corporate hospitals.
3. Voluntary Health Agencies.
4. National Health Programmes.
1. PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR:-
Primary health care:-
a) Villages level:-
i) Village Health Guide Scheme:- It was introduced on 2nd October,1977 and launches in all states except Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu Kashmir. A village health guide is a person with an aptitude for social services and is not a government functionary. The health guides are mostly women now. They are chosen by the community in which they work and serve as links between community and governmental infrastructure. Guidelines for their selection are:-
- Should be permanent residents of the local community.
- Should have minimum formal education of at least upto VI standard.
- Should be acceptable to all sections of the community.
- Should be able to spare at least 2-3 hours per day for community health work. After selection, they undergo training in the nearest primary health centre for 200 hours spreads over a period of 3 months and receive Rs 200/- per month.
Duties assigned includes:-
- Treatment of simple