Voluntary Health Agencies

Voluntary Health Agencies
Dr Abhay Nirgude
Professor & HoD
Model of Health Care Delivery System
Inputs Health care Health care Outputs
services systems
Health status
or
health problems
Curative
Public
Preventive Private Changes in
Voluntary health status
Promotive
Indigenous
Resources
Specific Learning Objectives
• At the end of the lecture student should able
to:-
• 1. Enumerate various voluntary health
agencies.
• 2. Discuss the role of voluntary health
agencies in health care.
Voluntary health agencies
Defined as an organization that is
• Administered by autonomous board
• Which holds meetings,
• collects funds for its support chiefly from
private sources
• And expends money,
• Whether with or without paid workers
• In conducting a programme directed primarily
to furthering the public health by providing
the health services or health education
• Or by advancing the research or legislation for
health
• Or by combination of these activities
Functions
1. Supplementing the work of government

agencies
2. Pioneering:- Ex Research (Family Planning

Program of India)
3. Education
4. Demonstration:- bore hole latrines by
Rockefeller foundation.
5. Guarding the work of government agencies
6. Advancing health legislation

Voluntary health agencies in India
• Indian red cross society.
• Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh.
• Indian Council for Child Welfare.
• Tuberculosis Association of India.
• Bharat Sevak Samaj.
• Central Social Welfare Board.
Voluntary health agencies in India
• The Kasturba Memorial Fund.
• Family Planning Association of India.
• All India Women’s Conference.
• The All India Blind Relief Society.
• Professional Bodies.
• International Agencies.
Functions of Indian red cross society.
1. Relief work
2. Milk and medical supplies
3. Armed forces rehabilitation
4. Maternal and child welfare
5. Family planning
6. Blood bank and first-aid
Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh.
• Previously British Empire Leprosy Relief
Association (BELRA)
• Renamed as LEPRA in 1950.
• Financial assistance to leprosy homes, clinics,
health education, training of medical workers,
research, all India leprosy conferences.
Indian Council for Child Welfare.
• 1952
• Affiliated with International Union for Child
Welfare.
• Built a network of State & district councils.
• Work to secure opportunities & Facilities for
children.
• Enable overall health and development of
children with dignity.
Tuberculosis Association of India.
• 1939
• Fund raising through TB seal campaign.
• Training and health promotion.
• Institutions:-
• New Delhi Tuberculosis center
• Lady Linlithgow Sanitorium at Kasauli
• King Edward VII Sanitorium at Dharampur
• Tuberculosis Hospital in Mehrauli.
Bharat Sevak Samaj.
• 1952
• Help people achieve health by their own
actions and efforts.
• Work towards improvement of sanitation in
villages.
Central Social Welfare Board
• Set up by GOI 1953 under general
administrative control of the Ministry of
Education.
• Functions:-
1. Surveying the needs and requirements of
voluntary health agencies in the country.
2. Promoting and setting up of social welfare
organizations on a voluntary basis.
Central Social Welfare Board
• Functions:-
3. Rendering financial aid
The Kasturba Memorial Fund
• 1944
• Improvement in the life of women, especially
in villages through “ Gramsevikas”.
Family Planning Association of India
• 1949
• Pioneering work in propagating family
planning in India.
• Family planning clinics, grants in Aid from GOI
• Training of doctors and HCP
All India Women’s Conference
• 1926
• Branches all over India.
• MCH Clinic, medical centers, adult education
centers, milk centers and family planning
clinics.
The All India Blind Relief Society.
• 1946.
• Coordinate different institutions working for
the blind.
• Organizes eye relief camps
Professional Bodies
International Agencies
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• CARE ( Cooperative for Assistance & Relief

Everywhere)
• International Red Cross

ROCKFELLER FOUNDATION- Mr. John. D.
Rockfeller
– Mainly public health and medical education
– Subsequently life sciences, social sciences,
humanities, agriculture and family planning
– Hookworm disease in Madras
– All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
in Calcutta
– Training abroad of candidates from India
through fellowships and research grants
• Sponsoring visits from U.S.A
• Providing grants to selected institutions
• Development of medical college libraries.
Population studies
• National institute of virology in Pune
• Ballabhgarh block of AIIMS
FORD FOUNDATION
• Rural health services and family planning
• Orientation training centers in public health
• Research cum action projects - RCA latrine
• Pilot projects in rural health services – Gandhi gram
• Establishment of NIHAE in New Delhi
• Calcutta water supply and drainage scheme
• Family planning programme
CARE – Cooperative for Assistance and Relief
Everywhere
• Worlds largest, independent, non profit, non
sectarian, international relief and
development organisation
• CARE provide emergency aid and long term
development assistance
• Food for children 6-11 years
• Food support in ICDS
• Integrated nutrition and health project
• Better health and nutrition project
CARE – contd.
• Anemia control project
• Improving women’s health project
• Improved health care for adolecent girls
project
• Child survival project
• Improving women’s reproductive health and
family spacing project
• Konkan integrated development project
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
• Henry Dunant, Swiss Businessmen
• Traveling north Italy 1859
• Battle of Solferino
Indian red cross
Junior red cross
• Village up liftment
• First aid
• Anti epidemic work
• international friendliness
• Understanding and cooperation
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Voluntary Health Agencies

1. Supplementing the work of government

2. Pioneering:- Ex Research (Family Planning

5. Guarding the work of government agencies

6. Advancing health legislation

• CARE ( Cooperative for Assistance & Relief

• International Red Cross

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