Reflective Accounts On Health And Social Care

SECTION – I : INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH

A. HEALTH

The Health is changing, and evolving concept of Health could be seen as the state of having one’s own basic needs satisfied, or more positively, as having the necessary resources to live one’s life as one chooses. So the WHO has moved towards the following concept.:

‘Health is therefore, sSeen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. It is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capacities.

WHO Definition of Health: ‘“Health is a state of complete physical, Mmental and social well being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity’”.

Health is seen as the foundations or conditions necessary to live one’s own life to the full.

• Public health services.
• Family planning.
• Indigenous systems and Medicines.
• Development of health manpower resources.

Tenth Five Year Plan (2002 – 2007):

Efforts are made to improve access to and enhance the primary health care in urban and rural areas by providing functioning PHC System as Basic Minimum Services and to improve existing health care infra structure of primary, secondary and tertiary care settings.

The targets for 10th Five Year plan which can be monitored are

• Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percent points by 2007, and by 15% by 2012.
• All children in school by 2003; all children to complete 5 years scholarship by 2007.
• Reduction in gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by at least 50% by 2007.
• Reduction in the decadal rate of population growth between 2001 and 2011 to 16.2% with in plan period.
• Increase in literacy rate to 75% with in plan period.
• Reduction of infant mortality rate to 45 per 1000 Live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2012.
• Reduction of national mortality ratio to 2% 1000 live births by 2007 and 1 by 2012 and
• All villages to have sustained access to potable drinking water with in plan