National Health Policy

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan reviews draft mental health policy for school

June 06, 2026 9:41 am

In the meeting more importance was given to holistic and preventive approach. Last month the officials has mentioned that the ministry is also set to roll out a mental health policy at school level.

India's burden of lifestyle diseases is growing. We need a multi-pronged approach

October 17, 2025 7:03 am

Building synergies between projects targeted at the environment, the National Clean Air Programme, for instance, and those aimed at improving people's health and well-being is an imperative that cannot be postponed

Health expenditure at 1.84% of GDP, moving steadily to 2.5%: JP Nadda

March 20, 2025 1:44 am

Responding to a discussion on the working of Union Health Ministry in RS, IUML’s Haris Beeran said that the National Health Policy target of enhancing health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025 “remains a distant dream.”

New Tripura CM Manik Saha chairs first cabinet meeting, state to formulate health policy, IT policy

May 16, 2022 6:24 pm

The meeting also decided to introduce welfare measures for people with disabilities and particularly vulnerable tribal groups.

Raise govt spending to cut out-of-pocket expenditure

January 30, 2021 1:10 am

Comparing India’s spend on healthcare with countries like Indonesia, China and Thailand, the Survey concluded the country could “substantially” reduce the OOP share of overall healthcare spends to 30 per cent from 60-65 per cent currently.

PGI doctor features among top 20 global researchers on universal health coverage

January 20, 2021 10:53 pm

A bibliometric analysis of research on UHC conducted from January 1990 to September 2019, which was recently published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, identified authors, journals and countries where maximum volume of high-quality research on UHC is published.

Health policy to focus on yoga, Ayurveda: Minister

August 04, 2014 2:21 am

"The old, Allopathy orientation of AIIMS is out of sync with the contemporary trend of integrating indigenous and Western forms of cure"

JP Nadda on Regulation of Medical Costs & National Health Policy

July 20, 2015 12:02 pm