ABSTRACT
The objective of the national health policy should be to provide health for all by 2000 A.D. This implies the provision of a good and adequate health care system for all citizens, and especially for women and children and poor and underprivileged groups. Improvement of the environment will reduce infection, make programmes of nutrition more effective, and help materially in reducing morbidity and mortality. Health education should become an integral part of all general education and should receive adequate emphasis. Education is one of the important tools of health care. The intimate connection between political development and health status is well-established. The average citizen was therefore considered to be the ‘object’ of health care, the responsibility for defining his health needs and meeting them being placed on professionals and other authorities. It is also necessary to promote research on social aspects of medicine and especially on economics of health, jointly under the ICMR and ICSSR.
