Health Management Techniques
- Health Management: Effective use or management of resources.
Quantitative | Qualitative (Based on Behavioral Sciences) |
• Cost-benefit analysis | Mnemonic: POCIMon |
• Cost-effective analysis | • Personal management |
• System analysis | • Organizational design |
• Cost accounting | • Communication |
• PPBS: ↳ Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System | • Information system |
• Work sampling | • Management by objectives |
• Network analysis | ㅤ |
• Decision making | ㅤ |
• Input-output analysis | ㅤ |
• Model | ㅤ |
ㅤ | Vaishna: Personal, organise, communicate, Information, Objective → medicine But not decision making |
Qualitative
- Organisational designs
- Personnel management
- Communication
- Information systems
- Management by objectives
Quantitative
- Network Analysis:
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT):
- Sequence of events (e.g., A -> B, B -> C, D --> E)
- Critical Path Method (CPM):
- Critical path: Event that takes the longest time.
- Use: Assess shortest time to complete the program.

- Cost Analysis:
- Cost benefit
- Return of benefit in terms of money/finance.
- Cost effective
- Return of benefits in terms of lives affected (saved).
- ICER (Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio) is used in cost effective analysis
- e.g. National Health Programme uses cost-effective analysis.
- Stock Analysis / Inventory Control
- ABC/VED analysis
- For delegating purchase power for commodity in an organisation:
- ABC: Based on cost of commodity.
- A – Extremely important (vital)
- B – Moderately important (essential)
- C – Relatively unimportant (desirable)
- VED: Vital Essential Desirable use of the commodity.
- Vital
- Example: Anti-snake venom
- Essential
- Example: Higher antibiotics
- Desirable
- Example: PCM, ORS
1. Input–Output Analysis
Input (3Ms + Tech) | Output |
• Manpower • Money • Material • Technical skills | • Lives saved |
2. Cost Accounting
- Focuses on:
- Cost structure
- Resources used
- Cost control
- Reimbursements
3. PPBS (Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System)
- Used for: Planning program budgets
- Method:
- Zero-base budgeting
→ Every year, a fresh budget is allocated (no carry-over)
4. Work Sampling
- What:
- Systematic recording/reporting of health worker activities
- Who:
- Doctors, Nurses, Lab technicians
- Why:
- To increase output and improve efficiency

In a hospital setting, the management seeks to determine the average duration of doctor-patient interactions in order to assess the need for adjusting the number of doctors. This adjustment is aimed at enhancing the quality of care provided. Which management technique would be most appropriate for this purpose?
A. Model
B. Decision making
C. Personnel management
D. Work sampling
A. Model
B. Decision making
C. Personnel management
D. Work sampling
ANS
D. Work sampling
Legislative Section Lists
List | Name | Managed by | Examples |
List I | Union list | Central Govt | Défense, foreign affairs, citizenship, ports, reserve banks, institutes of national importance. National highway |
List II | State list | State govt | Public health, sanitation, hospitals (PHC, CHC, DH), fisheries, agriculture, industries, tolls. State highway |
List III | Concurrent list | Both central & state govt. | Medical profession, subcentre (Center), medical education, vital statistics, trade commerce, civil procedure. |

Newer Initiatives by MoHFW
Ayushman Bharat Scheme

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1. PMJAY (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna):
- Aka National Health Protection Mison
- World’s largest health insurance scheme.
- ₹5 lakh to 10 crore families.
- Beneficiaries:Â ~50 cr population.
- Blanket coverage (Irrespective of age, type of disease etc).
2. Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC):
- Health & Wellness Centre-Sub-centre set up
- Aka Arogya Mandir
- Under New Indian Public Health standards.
- Officer: Community Health Officer (CHO).
- Nodal officer for HWC (Health & Wellness Centre).
- Qualification:Â Nurses
- Functions: Diagnosis, treatment, maintenance of medical records.
- Functions:
- Comprehensive primary health care
- At subcentre >>>
- At PHC
- Continuum of care:
- Diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive, promotive.
- <30 min: Time to care.
- ABHA ID:
- Centralised ID for all medical records.
- In addition to CHO → New IPHS guidelines:
- Pharmacist & Lab technician
- 1 per 10,000 population (At sub-centre level).
- To help CHO diagnose and Rx
- Ophthalmologist:
- 1 per 3 to 5 CHCs.
- They are less in number → so relaxed norms
Schemes for Social Health



Scheme/Policy | Purpose |
SANKALK | • Booklet → HIV/AIDS • For sangi → HIV Book |
MANAS | • Mental health awareness |
INSPIRE | • Child abuse • Inspire children |
KIRAN | • Suicide helpline • Kiran will help from suicide |
National Quality Assurance Program (NQAP) a. LaQshya scheme b. SaQushal scheme c. muSQan scheme | 1. To improve quality of labor room 2. SaQushal → Safety & quality assessment in private and govt health facilities 3. To provide child friendly hospital services ↳ Mnemonic: Muskurati child SaQushal vs NABH • SaQushal → Statewise • NABH → National |
Kayakalp | • For sanitation & cleanliness in public hospitals • Karyasthane hospital elpikkanam |
Nirmal gram | • For zero open defecation in villages • Malam illatha gramam |
Swacch bharat | • For solid waste management |
UJALA ↳ (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs For All) | • For energy efficient lighting by LED bulbs • Mnemonic: Blue LED |
Pradhan mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY) | • Provides safer fuels |
Ujjjawala scheme | • Aims to stop human trafficking |
Mission Indradhanush | • For safe vaccines & universal vaccine coverage |
Indradhanush scheme | • For clean bed sheets in ESI hospitals ↳ (7 coloured bedsheets for 7 days of the week) • Indira ammumma sheet matttunnath scheme aanu |
AMRIT | • Affordable medicines & Reliable Implants for Tx • RI → Reliable Implant |
AMRUT | • Atal mission for Rejuvenation & Urban Transformation • RU → Rejuvenation & urban |
Jai Vigyan | To promote understanding of Rheumatic fever (RF) • Prevalence of RF • Prevalence of Streptococcal infection • Pathology of RHD & RF • Vaccine development for RHD & RF • Pinarayi Vijayan → heart illa |
Miscellaneous Topics
Essential medicines
- Monitored by CDSCO (Central Drug Standard Control Organization).
- Head office: New Delhi (6 zonal offices).
The Drugs and Cosmetics Act
- Regulates import, manufacture, distribution, and sale of drugs.
Medical products | Meaning |
Misbranded Drug/ Counterfeit | • Intentionally made to deceive. • Not labelled correctly, or label makes false claims. • A drug stating 500mg of paracetamol per tablet but containing only 200mg is a misbranded drug. |
Sub-standard/ Out of specification | • Authorized medical products that do not meet quality standards. |
Falsified/ Spurious Drug | • Deliberately misrepresent identity or source of composition. • Imitation or substitute, deceptive name • (e.g., small company imitating known brand). • Punishable: Life Imprisonment • Furious → Imprison for life • North indian companies making fake branded products |
Unregistered | • Not evaluated or approved. |
Adulterated Drug | • Contains filthy, putrid, or decomposed substances. |

Health Budget 2023-2024
- Launch of new medical & nursing colleges.
- Sickle cell anemia elimination (in tribal areas).
- To promote research & innovation in pharmaceuticals.
- Multidisciplinary course for medical devices to be supported in existing institutions.
- ↑ GDP spending on health to 2.1% (Target: >2.5%).
Health Policy Indicators
- Every country should spend 5% of GDP on health, according to WHO
Q. All are disability indicators except:
A. Disability-adjusted life years
B. Health-adjusted life expectancy
C. Sullivans index
D. Life expectancy
B. Health-adjusted life expectancy
C. Sullivans index
D. Life expectancy
ANS
Life expectancy: Positive mortality indicator
NOTE
OTTAWA RULES:
- When to take Xray in ankle trauma
- M/c injury → Anterior Talofibular Ligament tear
Ottawa Convention (Mine Ban Treaty)
- 1997 treaty.
- Bans use, stockpiling, production, transfer of anti-personnel landmines.
- Requires:
- Destruction of stockpiles within 4 years.
- Clearance of mined areas within 10 years.
- Assistance to victims.
- Not signed by:
- USA
- Russia
- China
- India
- Pakistan



Talus # → Aviator # → Hawkins classification
Calcaneal # → Lovers #

Tillaux #
- Distal tibia → salter haris 3
- Avulsion fracture
DANIS- WEBER classification:
- For ankle #

Dancers # → Pseudo jones
Jumpers # → Sacrum
Denis classification
Judet and letournel: Acetabulum #
Young and Burgess: Pelvic #
Schatzker classification: Tibia #
EVANS CLASSFICATION → IT #
Economics
- Gross domestic product (GDP):
- Gross income generated within a country only
- excludes net income received
- Gross national income (GNI) or Gross national product (GNP)
- Gross income generated from within the country +
- net income received from abroad
- Net national product (NNP):
- GNP minus capital we consume
- NN - Negetive
ICD-11
- 3 volumes.
- Arabic numbered chapters.
- 4 categories with 2 subcategories.
- 26 chapters: New chapters on
- Sleep wake disorders
- Immune mediated disorders
Employee State Insurance (ESI) Scheme

General Features
- Under the Ministry of Labor.
- Managed by ESI corporation.
- Established on 24th February, 1948 (ESI day).
- Eligible organizations:
- All organizations are under ESIC.
- Exceptions: Defence, mines, railways, central government.
- Contribution:
- 4% total wage paid monthly to ESIC.
- Employee: 0.75% of wage.
- Employer: 3.25% of employee's wage.
- Eligible beneficiaries:
- Monthly salary of < Rs. 21,000/month.
- If physically handicapped < Rs. 25,000/month.
Benefits
- Indirect: By empanelled hospital facilities.
- Direct: By ESI hospital/clinics.

Shramnik Kalyan Yojna
- Under ESI
- Unemployment protection scheme for:
- Retrenchment (Lay off).
- Forceful closure of company.
- Non occupational injury.
- Benefit: Up to 50% wage x 2 yrs.
Factories Act (1948)
- Permissible hours of work:
- <48 hrs/week
- < 9hrs/day
- With overtime: <60 hrs/week
- Notifiable diseases - 29
- Not included → Bagassosis
- NOTE:
- Article 21: Right to life
Age | Employment |
<14 years | Not to be employed (Article 24) |
15-19 years (Tender age) | Appropriate work only (Article 39) • 4.5 hrs/ day (6am - 7pm) • No night duty • No overtime • No hazardous work • 1 extra leave every 14 days |
Facilities
Employee | Mandatory features |
>50 | Creche facility |
>250 | Food facility |
>500 | Welfare officer |
>1000 | Safety officer |
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Healthcare Committees


Year | Health care committees |
1946 | Bhore committee: • Public health care system & 3 million plan. |
1962 | Mudaliar committee: • Planned to start Indian Medical Services. |
1963 | Chadah committee: • Malaria worker → Basic health worker. • Integration of family planning programme. |
1965 | Mukherjee committee: • Delinking of malaria from family planning programme. |
1967 | Jungulwalla committee: • Equitable pay as per work. • Non-practice allowance (NPA). |
1973 | Kartar Singh committee: • Multipurpose worker formed. |
1975 | Srivastava committee: • Worked on medical education. |
1986 | Bajaj committee: • Finance guidance. |

Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyan
- Theme: Healthy Women, Empowered Families
- By Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Linked to 8th Rashtriya Poshan Maah (Nutrition Month)
- Implementation sites
- Ayushman Arogya Mandirs
- Community Health Centres
- District Hospitals
- Other government health facilities
- Objectives
- Improve nutrition
- Increase health awareness
- Enhance overall well-being
- Women
- Children
Mission Shakti
- For women empowerment
- Under Ministry of Women & Child Development.
- Sambal: Safety & security of women.
- Samarthya: women empowerment.
- Includes
- Ujjawala
- Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
- Swadhar Greh & National Creche Scheme.

