National Health Mission (NHM)

• In 2013, the government of India launched the National Health Mission (NHM), which integrated the National Rural Health Mission (initiated in 2005) and the National Urban Health Mission (introduced in 2013).

• Components -  Health System Strengthening in both rural and urban regions, focusing on Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A), as well as addressing Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases.

Aim of this scheme:

• Decrease the Maternal Mortality Rate to 1 per 1,000 live births.

• Lower the Infant Mortality Rate to 25 per 1,000 live births.

• Reduce the Total Fertility Rate to 2.1.

• Prevent and reduce anemia among women aged 15–49 years.

• Prevent and reduce mortality and morbidity from communicable and non-communicable diseases, injuries, and emerging diseases.

• Reduce household out-of-pocket expenditure on total healthcare.

• Halve the annual incidence and mortality from Tuberculosis.

• Reduce the prevalence of Leprosy to less than 1 per 10,000 population and achieve zero incidence in all districts.

• Achieve an annual Malaria incidence of less than 1 per 1,000 population.

• Achieve less than 1 percent microfilaria prevalence in all districts.

• Eliminate Kala-azar by 2015, reaching less than 1 case per 10,000 population in all blocks.