Indian Healthcare Sector and the Sustainable Development (original) (raw)

2022, International Journal of Current Research and Review

Sustainable development is one of the fundamental aims of health. Health itself is both a result and a contribution to development. Health is a crucial component in the right, people-centred, egalitarian, and inclusive approach to development. It is a vital part of human life due to material, psychological, social, cultural, educational, professional, political, and personal aspects of security. All these aspects are connected and interdependent. Investments in whatever form, in any part, necessarily improve other constituent quality standards. Many advances have been made in this sector under the era of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). India has met with some progress in reduction of infant mortality rate, from 125 per 1,000 live births in 199091 to 50 per 1,000 live births in 2015-16, and the maternal death rate reduced from 212 per 100000 live births in 2007-09 to 167 in 2013. Nevertheless, the scope exists to address the gaps in policy implementation at the ground level. New...