2. Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.
11. MEDICINE IN ANTIQUITY. In ancient times, health and illness were interpreted in a cosmological and anthropological perspective. Medicine was dominated by magical and religious beliefs which were an integral part of ancient cultures and civilizations.
50. The Bhore committee (1946)defined comprehensive health care as the following criteria. Provide adequate preventive, curative and promotive health services. Be as close to the beneficiaries as possible. Widest cooperation between the people, the service and the profession. Is available to all irrespective of their ability to pay Look after specifically the vulnerable and weaker sections of the community. Create and maintain healthy environment both in home as well as working places.
52. A basic health service is understood to be a network of coordinated, peripheral and intermediate health units capable of performing effectively a selected group of functions essential to the health of an area and assuring the availability of competent personnel and auxiliary personnel to perform these functions.
59. In 1978, Alma Ata international conference on Primary health care reaffirmed Health for all as the major social goals of the Governments and stated that the best approach to achieve the goal of HFA is by providing primary health care, especially to the vast majority of underserved rural areas.
71. Urban residents are extremely vulnerable to macroeconomic shocks that undermine their earning capacity and lead to substitution towards less nutritious, cheaper foods.
