Health Committees and Recommendations - Simplified. / Community Health Nursing.

Topic: Health Committees and Recommendations
I. Introduction
• Govt. of India from time to time appointed several committees to study the then existing health situations of the country and to report in recommendations to improve the health of the country.
• The guidelines for organizing Health services and for
National health planning were provided by a number of committees.
II. List of committees
1. Bhore Committee (1943)
2. Chopra Committee (1946)
3. Sokhey Committee (1947)
4. Shetty committee (1954)
5. Mehta Committee (1957)
6. Mudhaliar Committee (1959)
7. Renuka Roy Committee (1960)
8. Mukerjee Committee (1965)
9. Jain Committee (1966)
10. Jangalwalla Committee (1967)
11. Kartar Sing committee (1972-73)
12. Shrivastava Committee (1974-75)
13. Krishnan Committee (1982)
14. Mehta Committee (1983)
15. Bajaj Committee (1986-87)
16. Others
a. Health For All by 2000 AD, Report of the working Group (1980)
b. High power committee on nursing and nursing profession (1987-1989)
c. Report of the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2005)

III. Major Health Committees in India.
A. Bhore Committee
a. Period: (1943 - 1946)
b. Chairman: Sir. Joseph Bhore
c. Other Name: “Health survey and Development Committee”.
d. Objectives: To survey and report the existing health condition & organization positions
e. Recommendations
i. Integration of preventive & curative Health service
ii. PHC– Two stages
a. Short term
- PHC
b. Long term
- Hospitals
iii. Social Physician.
B. Mudhaliar Committee
a. Period: 1959 - 1962
b. Chairman: Dr. A. L Mudaliar
c. Other Name: “Health survey and Planning Committee”
d. Objectives:
-To survey and report the health needs and resources
- Review the progress – Bhore …Comm Rec.
d. Recommendations: Regional Services
i. District Hosp.
ii. Regional Organization
iii. All India Health services &
- Integration of Medical & Health services and Bhore Committee Recommendations.
C. Chadha Committee
a. Period: 1963
b. Chairman: Dr. M. S. Chadha
c. Other Name: Committee for ‘Maintenance Phase of Malaria Eradication Programme’.
d. Objectives: The arrangement necessary for the Maintenance Phase of the NMEP.
e. Recommendations:
i. Setting up of Primary Health Units
2. Basic Health Worker – Malaria & FP
3. Family Planning Assistant
D. Mukerjee Committee
a. Period: 1965 – 66 (Appointed in two times – 1965 and 1966).
b. Chairman: Sri. B. Mukarjee
c. Other Name: “Review committee for Family planning”.
d. Objectives:
To check the results of Malaria Vigilance Operation and
To review the targets of FP programme.
e. Recommendations
i. Separate staff - FP
ii. Delink the Malaria activities from FP
iii. BHS at Block level
E. Jangalwalla Committee
a. Period: 1967
b. Chairman: Dr. N Jangalwalla
c. Other Name: “Committee on Integration of Health Services”.

d. Objectives:
- To examine various problems like the importance and urgency of integration of health services and
- Elimination of Pvt. Practice by doctors.
e. Recommendations:
i. Integrated Health services
ii. Equal pay for equal work
iii. No Private Practice by Govt. doctors



F. Kartar Sing Committee
a. Period: 1972-1973
b. Chairman: Kartar Sing
c. OtherName:“ Committee on Multipurpose Workers ”.

d. Objectives:
- To study & make structure of integrated services at periphery & supervisory levels
- The feasibility of having Multipurpose & Unipurpose workers in the field.
e. Recommendations:
i. Programme of Multipurpose Health Workers
ii. Staff and Population of Sub centre
iii. Female Health supervisor
iv. Qualified Public Health Nurse
G. Shrivastava Committee
a. Period: 1974 - 1975
b. Chairman: Sri. K.N. Srivastava
c. Other Name: “ Committee on Medical Education and Support Manpower ”.

d. Objectives:
- To devise suitable curriculum for training Health Assistants.
- To suggest steps for improving the existing Medical Education Process.

e. Recommendations:
i. Organization of Basic Health Services
ii. Creation of bands of Paraprofessional and Semi professional health workers
iii.Establishment of a Medical and Health Education Commission.

H. Others Notable Committee
A. Chopra Committtee
a. Period: 1946 – 1948
b. Chairman: Col. Sir R N Chopra

c. Features and Recommendations:
- Committee on through integration in education and multi-disciplinary research.

B. Sokhey Committee
a. Period: 1947
b. Chairman: Sahib Sing Sokhey
c. Features and Recommendations:
i. Prescribing standards of dietary and nutrition.
iv. Suggestions for guarding against the incidence of the various epidemics.
v. Investigation & suggestions to reduce infant and
maternal mortality,
vi. Provision of the necessary health units

C. Shetty Committee
a. Period: 1954
b. Chairman: Shri. Shetty
c. Features and Recommendations
- To Reviewing the salary and the working conditions of nurses in the country.



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