An ideal health care services not only includes the medical institutions and practitioners but also various health care programs which are implemented to control communicable diseases, family planning, community's health, mother and child health care, which help the people in preventive manner to improve their health as well as safe guard from diseases, which in turn results into healthy and developed nation. Private sector is mainly concerned with curative aspect while government facilities are responsible for public health i.e. disease prevention and control as well as sanitation. The present paper deals with the various schemes, programs and national initiatives to provide universal access to quality health care in India. The approach of government is to increase access to the decentralized public health system by establishing new infrastructure in deficient areas and by upgrading the infrastructure in the existing institutions. The union ministry of health and family welfare is instrumental and responsible for implementation of various programs on national scale in the areas of health and family welfare, prevention and control of major communicable diseases and promotion of traditional and indigenous systems of medicines. In addition, the ministry also assists states in preventing and controlling the spread of seasonal disease outbreaks and epidemics.
Health, Disease, Prevention, Control, Program
