TY - BOOK ED - Ministry of Health (MoH) & Family Welfare. TI - National health policy 2015: draft U1 - e-book (SD) PY - 2015/// CY - Thimphu, Bhutan PB - Ministry of Health (MoH) & Family Welfare N2 - Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Situation Analysis 4 2.1 Achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4 2.2 Achievements in Population Stabilization 4 2.3 Inequities in Health Outcomes 4 2.4 Concerns on Quality of Care 5 2.5 Performance in Disease Control Programmes 5 2.6 Developments under the National Rural Health Mission 6 2.7 Burden of Disease 7 2.8 NRHM as an instrument for strengthening state health systems 7 2.9 Urban Health 7 2.10 Cost of Care and Efforts at Financial Protection 8 2.11 Publicly Financed Health Insurance 8 2.12 Healthcare Industry 9 2.13 Private Sector in Health 10 2.14 Realizing the Potential of AYUSH services 10 2.15 Human Resource Development 11 2.16 Research and Challenges 11 2.17 Regulatory Role of Government 11 2.18 Investment in Health Care 12 3 Goal, Principles and Objectives 13 3.1 Goal 13 3.2 Key Policy Principles 13 3.3 Objectives 14 4 Policy Directions 15 4.1 Ensuring Adequate Investment 15 4.2 Preventive and Promotive Health 16 4.3 Organisation of Public Health Care Delivery 20 4.3.1 Primary Care Services & Continuity of Care 22 4.3.2 Secondary Care Services 24 4.3.3 Reorienting Public Hospitals 25 4.3.4 Closing Infrastructure and Human Resource/Skill Gaps 25 4.3.5 Urban Health Care 26 4.3.6 RCH Services 27 4.3.7 Communicable Diseases under National Disease Control Programmes 30 4.3.8 Mental Health 33 4.3.9 Emergency Care and Disaster Preparedness 33 4.3.10 Realising the potential of AYUSH 34 4.3.11 Tertiary Care Services 35 5 Human Resources for Health 36 6 Financing of Health Care & Engaging the Private Sector 41 7 Regulatory Framework 43 8 Medical Technologies 45 9 ICT for Health & Health Information Needs 48 10 Knowledge for Health 50 2 11 Governance 53 11.1 Federal Structure- Role of State and Role of Centre 53 11.2 The Institutional Framework 54 11.3 State owned, guided and financed institutions 54 11.4 Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions 54 11.5 Addressing Fiduciary Risks 55 11.6 Improving Accountability 55 11.7 Involving Communities 55 11.8 Professionalizing Management, Incentivising performance 55 12 Legal Framework for Health Care and the Right to Health 56 13 Concluding Note- Implementation Framework and Way forward 57 ER -