Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) & Health Status of Odisha

1PhD Scholar, Department of Economics, School of Management, Pondicherry University, Puducherry

2Director, Studies, EI and RR, Dean, Department of Economics, School of Management, Pondicherry University, Puducherry

3M.Phil Scholar, Dept. of Economics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry

Online published on 13 January, 2015.

Abstract

To improve the prevailing situation, the Government of Odisha launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) programme through the state on 17th June 2005. NRHM has completed its six years of journey in Odisha. It becomes necessary to assess the impact of NRHM on the health infrastructure and on the health indicators and to analyze the determinants of health status in the health development of Odisha. The study is only based on the secondary data. The collected data are analyzed with the help of MS-WORD and Excel. The study shows that the health status of study area is very poor and is gradually increasing as a result of the implementation of NRHM and the staple reasons for this tendency are: low income, illiteracy, shortage of doctors, unwillingness doctors to go to remote areas and lack of health care facilities and lack of production of laboratory technicians and radiographers.

Keywords

Health Infrastructure, Health Indicators, Health Status & NRHM