The Public Health India Score was developed by Dr. Ravi Narayan of the Centre for Public Health and Equity as a guide for people working in public health and community health in India. It is a compilation of key documents, reports, publications, experiments, events and initiatives that cover the most important aspects of Public Health Policy and System Development in India since Independence.
1. National Health Policy (1983)
2. National Education Policy (1986)
3. National Education Policy for Health Sciences (1989)
4. National Population Policy (2000)
5. National Health Policy (2002)
7. National Pharmaceutical Policy (2002)
8. Karnataka State Integrated Health Policy (2003) PDF
9. National Rural Health Mission - 2005-2012 PDF
10. National Knowledge Commission- Report of the working group on medical education and education for community health. 2007
1. Health Survey and Development Committee (Bhore Committee), 1946
2. Health Survey and Planning Committee (Mudaliar Committee), 1961
3. Committee on Multi Purpose Health Workers under Health and Family Welfare Programmes (Kartar Singh Committee), 1973
4. Group on Medical Education and Support Manpower (Srivastava Committee), 1975
5. Committee on Drugs and Pharmaceutical Industry (Hathi Committee), 1975
6. Health For All: An Alternative Strategy (ICSSR- ICMR), 1981)
7. Expert Committee on the Public Health System (Bajaj Committee 2), 1996
8. National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, 2005
9. National Knowledge Commission, 2007 PDF
10. Annual Report to the People on Health - MOHFW, 2010 PDF
1. Alternative Approaches To Health Care – ICMR, 1976
2. Evaluation Of Primary Health Care Programmes – ICMR, 1980
3. Appropriate Technology For Primary Health Care - ICMR, 1981
4. Health and Family Planning Services in India – Debabar Banerji, 1985
5. Jamkhed - Rajnikant Arole and Mabelle Arole, 1994
6. State of India's Health - VHAI, 1992
7. Reaching India's Poor: Non-governmental Approaches to Community Health - Saroj Pachauri, 1994
8. Report of the Independent Commission on Health in India - VHAI, 1997
9. Towards Equity, Quality and Integrity in Health: Report of the Task Force on Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Karnataka, 2001 PDF
10. Review of Health Care in India. Leena V Gangolli et al (Ed.). CEHAT. 2005 PDF
1. Poverty, Class And Health Culture – Debabar Banerji, 1982
2. Rakku's Story: Structures of Ill-Health and the Source of Change - Sheila Zurbrigg, 1984
3. Development With People: Experiments with participation and non-formal education - Walter Fernandes, 1985, Indian Social Institute, Delhi
4. Taking Sides: The Choices Before The Health Worker – C. Sathyamala
5. Health Care: Which Way To Go? - mfc
6. Under The Lens: Health and Medicine - mfc
7. Medical Education Re-Examined – 1991 - mfc
8. People's Health in People's Hands – N.H. Antia and Kavita Bhatia, 1993
9. Health For All Now! A People's Health Resource Book – JSA, 2000
10. The Rights Approach to Health and Health Care – Policy brief, JSA PDF
1. Narangwal Project PDF
2. Najargarh Project Project write-up on Ministry website
3. Singur Project
4. Gandhigram Institute of Rural Health and Family Welfare Official website
5. Chittaranjan Mobile Hospitals No. 139 on this list
6. ROME Scheme ( Reorientation of Medical Education ) 1976 Brief on ROME on cafemedico forums
7. Expanded Programme of Immunisation
8. Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme PDF
9. Community Health Workers – Janata Scheme 1977 JSTOR link
10. National Rural Health Mission NRHM mission document on NIHFW website
1. All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata
2. National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi
3. Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
4. National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai
5. National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi
6. National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore
7. National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad
8. National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi
9. National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad
10. National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi
2. Voluntary Health Association of India, New Delhi
3. Catholic Health Association of India, Secunderabad
4. Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi / Bangalore
5. Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action, Bangalore
6. Foundation for Research in Community Health, Mumbai
7. Anusandhan Trust (CEHAT, Mumbai; SATHI, Pune and CSER, Mumbai)
8. Jan Swasthya Rakshak and MP Health Missions Details from SOCHARA website
9. State Health Resource Centre, Chhattisgarh
10. Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement - India)
1. Calcutta Declaration – 1999 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1731556/pdf/v054p00749.pdf)
2. Indian Public Health Standards, NRHM - 2010 (http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/iphs.htm)
3. Public Health Foundation of India - 2006
4. South East Asia Public Health Education Information Network, SEARO - 2003 (www.seaphein.com/document/news/news)
5. National Rural Health Mission Task Forces (http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Task_grp/Tg_index.htm)
6. NRHM – Communitization Policy Initiatives (http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/adv_grp.htm and http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/asha.htm)
7. NRHM - ASHA Mentoring Group (AMG) and Advisory Group for Community Action (AGCA) (http://www.nrhmcommunityaction.org/)
8. National Consultation on Public Health Workforce 2009 (http://www.whoindia.org/LinkFiles/Human_Resources_National_consultation_on_PHWF_Report.pdf)
9. Strengthening Epidemiological Principles for Public Health Action – SEARO Initiatives (towards a socio-epidemiology) 2009 (http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/CDS_Epid_meet_C&R26-27feb09.pdf)
10. Planning Commission Expert Group on Universal Access to Health Care (http://www.thehindu.com/health/policy-and-issues/article838394.ece)
1. Indian People's Health Charter (2000)
2. National Human Rights Commission –Right to Health Initiative including Peoples Health Tribunals PDF
3. People’s Rural Health Watch Details on PHD-India website
4. Peoples’ Health Manifestos for Indian national election 2004-2009 Link to PHM website
5. Community Health Environment Skill Shares (CHESS) p.5 of this document from Greenpeace India
6. Community Health Fellowship Schemes in India since 2003 Details from SOCHARA website
7. Public Health Resource Network
9. Right to Water Campaign / http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2008/cokeimplicatedteri.html Details from ncasindia.org