Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India with the vision
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NITI Aayog has released ‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’.
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Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India is a continuation of the work on health systems strengthening. It contributes by suggesting mainstreaming of surveillance by making individual electronic health records the basis for surveillance.
Vision
- To make India’s public health surveillance system more responsive and predictive to enhance preparedness for action at all levels.
- Citizen-friendly public health surveillance systems will ensure individual privacy and confidentiality, enabled with a client feedback mechanism.
- Improved data-sharing mechanism between Centre and states for better disease detection, prevention, and control.
- India aims to provide regional and global leadership in managing events that constitute a public health emergency of international concern.
Highlights of the document
This vision document on India’s Public Health Surveillance by 2035 builds on opportunities that include the Ayushman Bharat scheme that establishes health and wellness centers at the community level- to strengthen non-communicable disease prevention, detection, and control and assures government payment for hospitalization- to reduce out of pocket expenses of individuals and families at the bottom of the pyramid.
- It builds on initiatives such as the Integrated Health Information Platform of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program.
- It aligns with the citizen-centricity highlighted in the National Health Policy 2017 and the National Digital Health Blueprint.
- It encourages the use of mobile and digital platforms and point of care devices and diagnostics for amalgamation of data capture and analyses.
- It highlights the importance of capitalizing on initiatives such as the Clinical Establishments Act to enhance private sector involvement in surveillance.
Steps that can be taken
- Establish a governance framework that is inclusive of political, policy, technical, and managerial leadership at the national and state level.
- Identify broad disease categories that will be included under Public Health Surveillance.
- Enhance surveillance of non-communicable diseases and conditions in a stepwise manner.
- Prioritize diseases that can be targeted for elimination as a public health problem.
- Establish mechanisms to streamline data sharing, capture, analysis, and dissemination for action through a comprehensive Electronic Health Records (EHR) with a unique health identifier (UHID).
- Encourage innovations at every step-in surveillance activity.
NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)About NITI Aayog
Objectives
Features:NITI Aayog is developing itself as a State-of-the-art Resource Centre, with the necessary resources, knowledge and skills, that will enable it to act with speed, promote research and innovation, provide strategic policy vision for the government, and deal with contingent issues. NITI Aayog’s activities can be divided into four main heads:
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References:
- https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1680519
- https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020-12/PHS_13_dec_web.pdf
