9th Class Social Science People as Resource Question Bank 9th CBSE Social Science People as Resource

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      What are the objectives of India's national policy on health? Suggest two ways in which the policy objectives can be met. 

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                      The objectives of the national health policy (2002) are as follow (i) Enhancing the contribution of Private sector in providing health service for people who can afford to pay. (ii) Giving primacy for prevention and first line curative initiative. (iii) Emphasising rational use of drugs. (iv) Increasing access to tried systems of traditional medicine. Some of the policy objectives can be met through the following methods. (a) Increasing the number of trained nurses or midwives to one per village. (b) Making available generic medicines (instead of branded medicines) at all government dispensaries. There are many other methods for fulfilling the other policy objectives.


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