NITI Aayog released a white paper: Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India.
Context
NITI Aayog released a white paper: Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India.
What is Vision 2035?
- The Covid-19 pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to revisit (re) emerging diseases due to increased interaction between human-animal-environment.
- ‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’is a continuation of the work on health systems strengthening.
- It contributes by suggesting mainstreaming of surveillance by making individual electronic health records the basis for surveillance.
- The white paper lays out India’s vision 2035 for public health surveillance through the integration of the three-tiered public health system into Ayushman Bharat.
- It also spells out the need for expanded referral networks and enhanced laboratory capacity.
- The building blocks for this vision are an interdependent federated system of governance between the Centre and states.
What is the vision of the paper?
- To make India’s public health surveillance system more responsive and predictive
- To enhance preparedness for action at all levels
- To develop citizen-friendly public health surveillance system
- To ensure individual privacy and confidentiality
- To enabled a client feedback mechanism
- Improved data-sharing mechanism between Centre and states for better disease detection, prevention, and control
- To provide regional and global leadership in managing events such as a public health emergency of international concern.
