National health policy 2017: Can it lead to achievement of sustainable development goals?

摘要

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) benefited through the valuable lessons learned fromMillennium Development Goals (MDGs) by forwarding the unfinished agenda of MDGs from 2015 onwards.India has also made tremendous improvements during implementations in concurrence with the MDGs, yetlacks in various fields. In 2017 National Health Policy (NHP 2017) was launched by Government of India(GOI) replacing National Health Policy 2002. There is much positive step forward in NHP 2017, but incombination with inadequacies regarding approaches to many key objectives necessary policy corollaries aremuch needed; otherwise many goals will remain unattainable. This new health policy will help keep improvingthe maternal and child health but still is unspecific about ‘Health as a fundamental right’ and many burningissues including, the emerging problems of non communicable diseases (NCD), violence on women, sanitationand most importantly ignoring the dire need of long term financial vision of primary health care as well aspublic health sector in the country.