‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’

Context

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

What is Vision 2035?

• The Covid-19 pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to revisit (re) emerging diseases due to increased interaction between human-animal-environment.
• ‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’is a continuation of the work on health systems strengthening.
• It contributes by suggesting mainstreaming of surveillance by making individual electronic health records the basis for surveillance.
• 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.
• It also spells out the need for expanded referral networks and enhanced laboratory capacity.
• The building blocks for this vision are an interdependent federated system of governance between the Centre and states.

What is the vision of the paper?

• To make India’s public health surveillance system more responsive and predictive
• To enhance preparedness for action at all levels
• To develop citizen-friendly public health surveillance system
• To ensure individual privacy and confidentiality
• To enabled a client feedback mechanism
• Improved data-sharing mechanism between Centre and states for better disease detection, prevention, and control
• To provide regional and global leadership in managing events such as a public health emergency of international concern.