Ministry/Department : Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
The National Health Mission (NHM) has two Sub-Missions :
- National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) covering urban areas
- National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) covering rural areas
The broad objectives of this mission are as follows:
- Reduce MMR to 1/1000 live births
- Reduce IMR to 25/1000 live births
- Reduce TFR (Total Fertility Rate ) to 2.1
- Prevention and reduction of anaemia in women aged 15–49 years
- Prevent and reduce mortality & morbidity from communicable, non-communicable; injuries and emerging diseases
- Reduce household out-of-pocket expenditure on total health care expenditure
- Reduce annual incidence and mortality from Tuberculosis by half
- Reduce prevalence of Leprosy to <1/10000 population and incidence to zero in all districts
- Annual Malaria Incidence to be <1/1000
- Less than 1 per cent microfilaria prevalence in all districts
- Kala-azar Elimination by 2015, <1 case per 10000 population in all blocks
Factual Information:
- Started in 2013
- Initially, NRHM was launched in 2005 to strengthen public health care system in the rural areas
- Public health being a state subject, support is being provided under NHM to the States/UTs for strengthening their health care delivery systems