3. INTRODUCTION
 The word „administer‟ is derived from Latin
word „ ad + ministraire‟ means to care for or
to look after the people to manage affairs.

4. DEFINITION
 According to Dfiftner and Drethas: “
Administration is the direction, co-ordination
and control of many people to achieve some
purpose or objectives.”
 According to Herbert A Simon “
Administration is the activities of the group‟s
co cooperating to accomplish common
goals”.

5. HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

6. MEANING AND DEFINITION
 Health administration is a branch of public
administration which deals with matters
relating to the promotion of health, preventive
services, medical care, rehabilitation, the
delivery of health services, the development
of health manpower, medical education and
training.

7. MEANING AND DEFINITION
 Public health administration is the science
and art of organizing and coordinating
government agencies whose purpose is to
improve the physical, mental and social
wellbeing of people. It aims at the prevention
of disease, preservation and promotion of
health.

8. OBJECTIVES OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
 To increase the average length of human life.
 To decrease the mortality and morbidity
rates.
 To increase the physical, mental and social
well being of the individual.
 To provide total health care to enrich quality
of life.
 To increase the pace of adjustment of the
individual to his environment.
 To make provision of primary health care
services to everyone.
 To develop healthy manpower to provide
proper services to the community.

9. PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
 Centralized director and decentralized
activity.
 There should be sound national health policy.
 Sound and systematic planning of health
programme is necessary for the benefit of
the whole community.
 There should be integration of preventive
and curative services at all administrative
levels.
 There should not be considered in isolation
from other socio-economic factors.

10.  There should be centralized direction and
decentralized actions.
 Health opportunities need not to be related to
purchasing power of the people.
 Planned health programmes should be based
on priority and must meet health need of the
people.
 Ensure basic health services
available, accessible and acceptable to the
people as close to their home as possible.
 Health consciousness should be fostered
through health education and by prevailing
opportunities for participation of people in the
health programmes.

11.  Doctors should be trained to act as social
physician as well as to promote healthy and
happier life.
 Nursing personnel and other allied health
personnel should be given community oriented
education in their curriculum.
 New categories of health personnel should be
given suitable training to provide proper services
to people at their level.
 Medical education can be reoriented and
medical services reorganized with the
involvement and cooperation of political and
social scientists.

12.  All the systems of medicine must be
encouraged to provide decent health to
people in the coordinated fashion.
 Utilize community resources and encourage
local participation to self help programs at
the village level.
 There should be provision for staff
development programs.

13. PLANNING PROCESS

14. DEFINITION
 According to WHO “Health planning process
has been defined as the orderly process of
defining community health
problems, identifying unmet needs and
surveying the resources to meet these
needs, establishing priority goals that are
realistic and feasible and projecting
administrative actions to accomplish the
purpose of the proposed program.”

15. IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING
 Anticipate product
 Reduce uncertainty
 Management by objectives
 Economy in operations
 Controlling/checking

16. PLANNING PRINCIPLES
 Who should do the job? – determine what skills
are needed to do the job successfully.
 What is to be done? – get a clear understanding
of what your unit is expected to do in relaxation
to the work assigned.
 When is it be done? – studying the flow of work
and the availability of the equipments and
material for doing the job.
 Why it is necessary? – when breaking the job
into separate units think of the objectives of
each job.
 How it is to be done? – in relation to each job
look for better ways of doing it in terms of the
utilization of money, man, material and

17. THE CYCLE OF PLANNING PROCESS
Exploration of
health condition
General information Setting
Political commitment goal/objectives
Health legislation
Administrative setup
Infrastructure
Monitoring Identification of
evaluation alternatives
Execution of
Plan for nation
plan

18. 1. Generation of informations
2. Analysis and understanding of health
problems; health needs and resources
3. Setting up of goals and objectives
4. Identification of alternative course of
actions, their analysis and selection.
5. Formulation of plan
6. Execution of the plan
7. Monitoring and evaluation

19. PLANNING COMMISSION

20.  In march 1950, the government of India had
set up a planning commission
 For purpose of planning, the health sector
has been divided into the following sub-
sectors:
 Water supply and sanitation.
 Control of communicable diseases
 Medical education, training and research.
 Medical care including hospitals
 Dispensaries and primary health centers
 Public health services. family planning

21. OBJECTIVE OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION
 To promote a rapid raise in the standard of
living of the people by efficient exploitation of
the resources of the country.
 Increasing production and offering
opportunities to all for employment in the
service of the community.

22. MEMBERS IN THE PLANNING COMMISSION
 Chairman
 Deputy chairman
 Members

23. FUNCTIONS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION
 Make an assessment of the material
 Formulate a plan
 determination of priorities
 Indicate the factors
 Determine the nature
 of the machinery
 Appraise time to time the progress
 ancillary recommendations

24. THE VARIOUS FIVER YEAR PLANS
1. First Plan (1951-56)
2. Second Plan (1956-61)
3. Third Plan (1961-66)
4. Fourth Plan (1969-74)
5. Fifth Plan (1974-79)
6. Sixth Plan (1980-85)
7. Seventh Plan (1985-89)
8. Eighth Plan (1992-97)
9. Ninth Plan (1997-2002)
10. Tenth Plan (2002-2007)
11. Eleventh Plan (2007-2012)

25. TENTH PLAN (2002-2007)
Main Objectives
 Reduction of poverty ratio by 5% points by 2007
 Providing gainful and high-quality employment
at least to the addition to the labour force.
 All children I India is school by 2003; all children
to complete 5 years of schooling by 2007
 Reduction in the decadal rate of population
growth between 2001 and 2011 to 16.2%
 Increase in literacy rates to 75 percent within
the tenth plan period

26.  Reduction of infant mortality rate to 2 per
1000 live births by w007 and to 1 by 2012
 Increase in forest and tree cover to 25 per
cent b 2007 and 33 per cent by 2012
 All villages to have sustained access to
potable drinking water within the plan period
 Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by 2007
and other modified stretches by 2010
 Economic growth further accelerated during
this period and crosses over 8% by 2006

27. ELEVENTH PLAN (2007-2012)
Objectives
Income and poverty
Education
Health
Women and children
Infrastructure.
Environment