HEALTH

29TH Aug 2019

 What is health ?

• According to WHO , health is a state of

complete physical, social, and mental
well being.
• It is not just the absence of disease or
infirmity
Why is health important?

• It keeps us free from stress

• Helps to fight illness
• Makes a person feel energetic and
enthusiastic.
• Increases the efficiency and in turn
productivity.
 LEVELS of HEALTH

PHYSICAL MENTAL SOCIAL

 Absence of disease • Learning new things Having family and

 Plenty of exercises friends
 Proper nutrition  Excitement Social support system
 Enough sleep  Enthusiasm Part of community
 Regular period of relaxation  Being creative Connecting to humans
and animals
 INDICATORS of HEALTH

Indicators of Health

MORTALTY NUTRITIONA
UTILIZATIO
INDICATOR L STATUS
N RATE
S INDICATORS

HEALTH INDICATORS OF
MORBIDITY CARE SOCIAL AND
INDICATOR DELIVERY MENTAL
S INDICATORS HEALTH
 Mortality Indicators
 CDR(Crude death rate)
 IMR(Infant mortality rate)
 MMR(Maternal mortality rate)
 CMR(Child mortality rate)

Morbidity Indicators
 Incidence rate
 Prevalence rate
 Disability rate
 Nutritional status indicators
 Incidence of low birth weight
 Weight and height standards of children up to 5 years

Health care delivery

indicators
Indicates availability of health man power resources of
the country and thus provision of health care.
A. SULLIVAN INDEX LIFE EXPECTANCY -
(PROBABLE DURATION OF BED DISABILITY +
INABILITY TO PERFORM MAJOR ACTIVITIES)
B. HEALTH ADJUSTED LIFE EXPECTANCY (HALE)
• Is an indicator of health which measures healthy
life expectancy.
• HALE is equivalent to the number of year
newborn child expected to live with full health.
C. DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR (DALE)
• Is used to express the years of life lost to
premature death and years
lived with disability for severity of disability.
• ONE DALY = ONE LOST YEAR OF HEALTHY LIFE
Utilization rate
 It’s the proportion of the people actually utilizing the
health care services in a given population during a given
year.
 Ex-% of infants fully immunized.

Indicators of social and

mental health
 Indicates rate of crime assault
 Rates of homicides and suicides
 Rates of murders
 Rates of theft
Progress of India in health sector
 Decrease in IMR and MMR
 Eradication of diseases like
1. Polio
2. Rinderpest (2011)
3. Yaws India is the first country officially declared free of yaws by
WHO in 2016.
4. Maternal and Neonatal tetanus
Targets
5. Tuberculosis by 2025
6. Measles by 2022
7. Malaria by 2030
8. Reduction of IMR from 39/1000 in 2014 to 28/1000by 2019.
9. Reduction of MMR from 167/10000 in 2011-13 to 100/10000
in2018-20.
 Challenges faced by
India
• It uses less than 1.14% of GDP on public
health.
• Non communicable diseases are
increasing tremendously.
• Lack of infrastructure.
• Corruption in health sectors.
National policies and campaigns

 Ayushman bharat
1. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna
2. Senior citizen health insurance scheme.

 Swachh bharat abhiyan

 International Yoga Day
 The fit campaign