To Meet the Challenges for Achieving Health/Reproductive Health for All and Millennium Developmental Goals

The experience and concern in health was included in the national programme as early development and primary health care in India as in 1952. Health and medical care date back to the Vedic Period. In the Indus- infrastructure and facilities, and water supply Valley Civilization as far back as 3000 B.C., one and sanitation were expanded with a view to finds evidence of well developed environmental improve the accessibility and availability of sanitation programmes such as underground services. Education and training facilities for drains, public baths in the cities, etc. 'Arogya ' medical and para-medical personnel and other or 'health ' was given high priority in daily life health functionaries were also instituted and and this concept of health included physical, expanded. mental, social and spiritual well being. The subsequent five-year plans aimed at India gained independence in August 1947 extending health and family planning services to after a long colonial rule. The basis for bring these increasingly within the reach of all organization of health services in India through the people for improving their health status. the primary health care approach in modern During the fifth plan (1975-80), removal o