Evaluating National Rural Health Mission via critical lenses: Human Resources, Services, Infrastructure and Community knowledge

Abstract

Public health management plays a critical role developing and maintaining a healthy workforce for persistent economic development by making adequate contribution to human capital formation. Public health policy plays a significant role. Globally, nations contribute significant amount in developing health facilities for masses. Since implication of health policies largely affect the general public, it is significant to evaluate performance of health policies. In Indian context National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is amongst the most comprehensive policy being implemented and its performance evaluation is critical from various aspects amongst which factors like human resources, services, infrastructure and community knowledge play a significant role. This paper is an attempt to build a model to understand amongst these factors which one have unique contribution in evaluating performance of NRHM.