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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.
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 Indian.
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