The new policy also provides space to the conventional strategic themes dealing with contraception, and information, education and communication (IEC) which are to play an important role in states where family planning acceptance is low and total fertility rate continues to be high.
OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES
Under NPP 2000 the following operational strategies are adopted.
- Converge service delivery at village level
- Empowering women for improved health and nutrition needs for family welfare services
- Child health and survival
- Meeting the unmet needs of the under-served population groups
- Use of diverse health care providers
- Collaboration with and commitments from the non-government sector
- Mainstreaming Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy
- Contraceptive technology and research on reproductive and child health (RCH)
- Providing for the older population
- Information education and communication
To strengthen health services in the country Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched National Rural Health Mission 2005-12. The mission aims at providing improved health services by strengthening health facilities at various levels, creating Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) at the grassroots (village) level, providing untied funds to village panchayats, implementation of village health plan, and focusing on 18 special focus states.
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