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Healthcare is identified as a fundamental pillar for realizing India's 'Viksit Bharat 2047' vision.
A robust healthcare system directly contributes to strengthening human capital and enhancing national productivity.
Prioritizing health outcomes is essential for achieving India's broader socio-economic development goals and developed nation status.
Human capital refers to the economic value of a worker's experience, skills, knowledge, and health. It encompasses the collective attributes of individuals that contribute to their productivity and, by extension, to the economic output of a nation. Investing in human capital through education, skill development, and crucially, healthcare, leads to increased productivity, innovation, and overall economic growth.
Simple Analogy: Just as a company invests in upgrading its machinery to boost production, a nation invests in its people's health and education to enhance their capabilities and boost national productivity and development.
Prioritizing healthcare directly aligns with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and contributes significantly to achieving other SDGs like poverty reduction (SDG 1), quality education (SDG 4), and economic growth (SDG 8).
A healthy workforce is more productive, leading to higher GDP and sustained economic development. Reduced healthcare expenditure due to preventive care can also free up resources for investment in other growth-driving sectors.
Equitable access to quality healthcare reduces health disparities across different socio-economic groups, promoting inclusive growth and ensuring that no segment of the population is left behind in the national development journey.
To provide health cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 12 crore vulnerable families.
Key: It is the world's largest government-funded health assurance scheme, aiming to reduce catastrophic health expenditure for the poor.
To improve health outcomes, especially for rural populations, by strengthening health systems.
Key: Encompasses the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), focusing on maternal and child health, communicable and non-communicable diseases.
To develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country.
Key: Aims to create a seamless online platform through the provision of a wide range of data, information, and infrastructure services, leveraging open, interoperable, standards-based digital systems.
GS-II: Governance (Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation), Social Justice (Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources).
General Awareness (Government Schemes, Social Sector Initiatives).
General Awareness (Government Schemes, Economic & Social Development).
General Awareness (Government Schemes, Social Sector).
General Awareness (National Development Programs, Social Issues).
Consider the following statements in the context of interventions being undertaken under Anaemia Mukt Bharat Strategy: 1. It provides prophylactic calcium supplementation for pre-school children, adolescents and pregnant women. 2. It runs a campaign for delayed cord clamping at the time of child-birth. 3. It provides for periodic deworming to children and adolescents. 4. It addresses non-nutritional causes of anaemia in endemic pockets with special focus on malaria, hemoglobinopathies and fluorosis. How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer: Only three
With reference to Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, consider the following statements: 1. Private and public hospitals must adopt it. 2. As it aims to achieve universal health coverage, every citizen of India should be part of it ultimately. 3. It has seamless portability across the country. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: 3 only
What is the aim of the programme 'Unnat Bharat Abhiyan'?
Answer: Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies.
High (Healthcare and national development goals are consistently important topics for competitive exams).
India's national vision to become a developed nation by the 100th year of its independence, i.e., 2047.
The economic value of a worker's experience, skills, knowledge, and health, crucial for national productivity and growth.
Ensuring that all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.