National Health Programs VL B.Pharmacy 8th Semester 2023 (2022-2023) Previous Year's Question Papers/Notes Download - HK Technical PGIMS

PPT PREPARED BY THE STUDENTS ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM AS PART OF THE ASSIGNEMNT

NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR HEALTHCARE OF
ELDERLY(NPHCE)

Introduction
Keeping in view the recommendations made in the “National Policy on Older
Persons” as well as the State’s obligation under the “Maintenance & Welfare of
Parents & Senior Citizens Act 2007”, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
launched the “National Programme for the Health Care of Elderly” (NPHCE) during
the year 2010, in the 11th Plan period, to address various health related problems
of elderly people.
Main Strategies
Following strategies are adopted to achieve the above mentioned
objectives:
• Preventive and promotive care: The preventive and promotive health care
services such as regular physical exercise, balanced diet, vegetarianism, stress
management, avoidance of smoking or tobacco products and prevention of fall,
etc. are provided by expanding access to health practices through domiciliary
visits by trained health workers. They will impart health education to old
persons as well as their family members on care of older persons. Besides,
regular monitoring and assessment of old persons are carried out for any
infirmity or illness by organizing weekly clinic at PHCs.
• Management of Illness: Dedicated outdoor and indoor patients
services will be developed at PHCs, CHCs, District Hospitals and
Regional Geriatric Centres for management of chronic and disabling
diseases by providing central assistance to the State Governments.
• Health Man Power Development for Geriatric Services : To
overcome the shortage of trained medical and para-medical
professionals in geriatric medicine, in service training will be imparted
to the health manpower using standard training modules prepared
with the help of medical colleges and regional institutions. The post
graduate courses in geriatric medicine will be introduced in Regional
Geriatric Centres for which additional teaching and supportive
faculties are provided to these institutions.
• Medical Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Intervention: By arranging
therapeutic modalities like therapeutic exercises, training in activities of
daily life (ADL) & treatment of pain and inflammation through
physiotherapy unit at CHC, district hospital and Regional Geriatric
Centre levels for which necessary infrastructure, medicine and
equipment are provided to these identified units.
• Information, Education & Communication (IEC): Health education
programmes using mass media, folk media and other communication
channels are being promoted to reach out to the target community for
promoting the concept of healthy ageing, importance of physical
exercise, healthy habits, and reduction of stress. Camps for regular
medical check-up are being organised at various levels where IEC
activities are also specifically promoted.

NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME
(NMHP) 

The Government of India has launched the National Mental Health
Programme (NMHP) in 1982, with the following objectives

The District Mental Health Program (DMHP) was launched under
NMHP in the year 1996 (in IX Five Year Plan). The DMHP was based
on ‘Bellary Model’ with the following components

NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR THE PREVENTION &
CONTROL OF DEAFNESS (NPPCD)

Objectives of the programme
•To prevent the avoidable hearing loss on account of disease or injury.
•Early identification, diagnosis and treatment of ear problems responsible
for hearing loss and deafness.
•To medically rehabilitate persons of all age groups, suffering with
deafness.
•To strengthen the existing inter-sectoral linkages for continuity of the
rehabilitation programme, for persons with deafness.
•To develop institutional capacity for ear care services by providing
support for equipment and material and training personnel.
Components of the Programme:
• Manpower Training & Development – For prevention, early identification
and management of hearing impaired and deafness cases, training would
be provided from medical college level specialists (ENT and Audiology) to
grass root level workers.
• Capacity Building–for the district hospital, CHC and PHC in respect of
ENT/Audiology infrastructure.
Service Provision Including Rehabilitation – Screening camps for early
detection of hearing impairment and deafness, management of hearing
and speech impaired cases and rehabilitation (including provision of
hearing aids ), at different levels of health care delivery system.
• Awareness Generation Through IEC Activities – for early identification of
hearing impaired, especially children so that timely management of such
cases is possible aid to remove the stigma attached to deafness.
•Monitoring and Evaluation
Expected benefits of the programme
•The programme is expected to generate the following benefits in the
short as well as in the long run.
•Large scale direct benefit of various services like prevention, early
identification, treatment, referral, rehabilitation etc. for hearing impairment
and deafness as the primary health center / community health centers /
district hospitals largely cater to their need.
•Decrease in the magnitude of hearing impaired persons.
•Decrease in the severity/ extent of ear morbidity or hearing impairment in
large number of cases
•Improved service network for the persons with ear morbidity/hearing
impairment in the states and districts covered under the project.
•Awareness creation among the health workers/grassroot level workers
through the primary health centre medical officers and district officers
which will percolate to the lowest level as the lower level health workers
function within the community.
•Larger community participation to prevent hearing loss through panchyati
raj institutions, mahila mandals, village bodies and also creation of a
collective responsibility framework in the broad spectrum of the society.
•Leadership building in the primary health centre medical officers to help
create better sensitization in the grassroots level which will ultimately
ensure better implementation of the programme.
•Capacity building at the district hospitals to ensure better care. ix. State of
the art department of ENT at the medical colleges in the state/union
territory under the project.

National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual
Impairment (NPCB&VI)