National Health Policy, 2017

The goal of the policy to attain the highest level of health and wellbeing for all at all ages, through a preventive and promotive health care orientation in all developmental policies, and universal access to good quality health care services.

Principles of National Health Policy

  • Objectives: Progressively achieving Universal health coverage
  • Reinforcing trust in Public Health care system
  • Align the growth of private health care sector with public health goals

The policy proposes a potentially achievable target of raising public health expenditure to 2.5% of the GDP in a time bound manner.

Specific Targets under National Health Policy

  • Increase Life Expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025.
  • Reduce Fertility Rate to 2.1 by 2025.
  • Reduce Infant Mortality Rate to 28 by 2019.
  • Reduce Under Five Mortality to 23 by 2025.
  • To reduce premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases by 25 per cent by 2025.
  • Reducing the prevalence of blindness to 0.25 per 1000 persons by 2025.
  • Reduce disease burden by one third from the present levels.
  • Achieve the global 2020 HIV target (also termed 90:90:90 global targets).
  • Eliminate leprosy by 2018, kala-azar by 2017 and lymphatic filariasis in endemic pockets by 2017.

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