India’s Healthcare system can be classified into many categories based on various parameters. Depending upon the function it address the Healthcare system in India consists of four components they are:-
- Primary, secondary & tertiary Institutions made by Medical and paramedical personnel.
- Medical colleges and para professional training Institutions to train the needed manpower and give the required academic input.
- Program managers managing ongoing programs at Central state and district levels.
- Health management information system consisting of a two-way system of Data Collection collation analysis and response.
Depending upon the source of funds for operation and health resources used health care system divided into 5 sectors as follows:-
- Public Health sector include Primary Health Care hospitals Community Health centres rural Hospital district hospital medical colleges specialist hospitals Health Insurance Scheme and other Agencies health services like difference hospitals Railway Hospital. Private Health Sector 10 include Private hospital nursing home dispensaries clinics etc.
- Voluntary health Agencies which are not for profit organisations working in the field of health depending upon type of Medical Systems we have.
- Allopathy and Ayush services are two broad categories.
- Indigenous system of medicine consists of Ayurveda yoga Unani Siddha.
- This has a separate ministry to provide funding support research and development.
- Public hospitals clinics and private hospitals clinics from part of this network.
Various National Health programmes
- National Health programmes they are vertical program, planned developed implemented and funded by Federal central government to combat particular diseases like Malaria leprosy etc.
- Primary Health Care in India forms the backbone of the health system specially in rural areas.
- Village health guide is a person who has an aptitude for social services he or she is not a full time government employee.
- Primary responsibility of village health guide includes helping the community with minor medical problems and sure for state maternal and Child Health Care health education and sanitation.
- Trained birth attendants women from village is selected and she undergoes a training of 30 working days at the Primary Health Care Centres of maternal and Child Health Centre.
- After the training she is provided with delivery kids han main responsibility is to ensure safe delivery and promotes small family norms.
- Anganwadi worker under the Integrated Child Development Scheme there is one Anganwadi workers employed for 1000 population she is trained in various aspects of health nutrition primary education etc and she plays a pivotal role in ensuring health access and has nutritional health supplement benefits to pregnant women, 0–6 years children lactating mothers and adolescents.
- Primary responsibility of village health guide includes helping the community with minor medical problems and show first aid maternal child health care health education and sanitation.