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 Unit-II
Topic –National Population
Policy
Presented by : Mr.Ananda.S, Asst.Professor,YNC
Reviewed by : Mrs.Savitha, Asst.Professor,YNC
Mrs.Shycil Mathew, Lecturer, YNC
Date of Review -
 LEARNING OBJECTIVE
At the end of the class the students will be able
to:-
 describe about national population policy

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 NATIONAL POPULATION
POLICY,2000
• Population policy in general refers to policies
intended to decrease the birth rate or growth
rate.
• Statement of goals, objectives and targets are
inherent in the population policy
• In April 1976 India formed its first
"National Population Policy”

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• It called for an increase in the legal minimum
age of marriage from 15 to 18 for females,
and from 18 to 21 years for males.

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• National Health Policy approved by the
parliament in 1983
• Set the long-term demographic goals of
achieving a Net Reproductive Rate (NRR) of
one by the year 2000 (which was not
achieved).
• "National Population Policy 2000" is the
latest in this series.

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• It reaffirms the commitment of the
government towards target free approach in
administering family planning services.
• It gives informed choice to the people to
voluntarily avail the reproductive health care
services.

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 It deals with ---
• Women education
• Empowering women for improved health and
nutrition
• Child survival and health
• The unmet needs for family welfare services;
• Health care for the under-served population
groups like urban slums, tribal community, hill
area population and displaced and migrant
population
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• Adolescent's health and education
• Increased participation of men in planned
parenthood and
• Collaboration with NGOs.

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 OBJECTIVES
 IMMEDIATE
1.To meet unmet needs for contraception,
health care infrastructure and health
personnel
2.To provide integrated health services delivery
for basic RCH care

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 MEDIUM
• To bring the TFR to replacement level by 2010
 LONG TERM
• To achieve stable population by 2045

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 The National Socio-Demographic Goals
to be achieved by the year 2010
(1) Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and
child health services, supplies and infrastructure.
(2) Make school education upto the age 14 free and
compulsory, and reduce drop-outs at primary and
secondary school levels to below 20 per cent for both
boys and girls.
(3) Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000
live births.

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(4) Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100
per 100,000 live births.
(5) Achieve universal immunization of children
against all vaccine preventable diseases.
(6) Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier
than age 18 and preferably after 20 years of age.
(7) Achieve 80 per cent institutional deliveries and
100 per cent deliveries by trained persons.

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(8) Achieve universal access to information/counselling, and
services for fertility regulation and contraception with a
wide basket of choices.
(9) Achieve 100 per cent registration of births, deaths,
marriage and pregnancy.
(10) Contain the spread of Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (AIDS), and promote greater integration
between the management of reproductive tract infections
(RTI) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the
National AIDS Control Organization.

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(11) Prevent and control communicable diseases.
(12) Integrate Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM) in
the provision of reproductive and child health
services

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 SUMMARY

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 CONCLUSION

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 Reference
1.K Park, Text Book of P & S.M., M/s Banarsidasm
Bhanot, Jabalpur
2. Mahajan B K and M/C.Gupta, Text Book of P &
S.M., Jaypee Publications
3. Gulani K. K, community health nursing, principles
and practices .
4.S.Kamalam ,Essentials in Community Health
Nursing Practice,2nd edition. Jayapee Brothers
Medical Publishers.
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 THANK YOU

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