Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance In India

Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance In India

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III – Environment

In news

• NITI Aayog recently released a white paper: Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India.

Key takeaways

• Vision: is to make India’s public health surveillance system more responsive and predictive to enhance preparedness for action at all levels.
• The white paper lays out India’s vision 2035 for public health surveillance through the integration of the three-tiered public health system into Ayushman Bharat.
• The building blocks for this vision are an interdependent governance between the Centre and states, a new data-sharing mechanism which involves the use of new analytics, health informatics, and data science including innovative ways of disseminating ‘information for action’.
• Citizen-friendly public health surveillance system will ensure individual privacy and confidentiality, enabled with a client feedback mechanism.
• Improved data-sharing mechanism between Centre and states for better disease detection, prevention, and control.
• India aims to provide regional and global leadership in managing events that constitute a public health emergency of international concern.