The panchayats should seek the help of community opinion makers to communicate the benefits of smaller, healthier families, the significance of educating girls, and promoting female participation in paid employment. They should also involve civil society in monitoring the availability, accessibility and affordability of services and supplies.

NPP 2000 recognizes the importance of improving maternal mortality. It says:

Maternal mortality is not merely a health disadvantage, it is a matter of social injustice. Low social and economic status of girls and women limits their access to education, good nutrition, as well as money to pay for health care and family planning services. The extent of maternal mortality is an indicator of disparity and inequity in access to appropriate health care and nutrition services throughout the lifetime, and particularly during pregnancy and child-birth, and is a crucial factor contributing to high maternal mortality.

PP 2000 also recognizes the role of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddh and Homeopathy systems of medicine and (AYUSH) and the role of private practitioners and traditional healers though it is felt that “mobilising the private (profit and non-profit) sector to serve public health goals raises governance issues of contracting, accreditation, regulation, referral, besides the appropriate division of labour between the public and private health providers, all of which need to be addressed carefully”. Ultimately the goal is to reach the people and promote low cost health care, specially the vulnerable sections of society such as urban slums, tribal communities, hill area populations and displaced and migrant populations, and adolescents.