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Engagement with Health The focus lies on (a) Reproductive Maternal and
and Nutrition Child Health (b) Nutrition sufficiency and security
(c) Communicable / Endemic diseases (d)
Non-communicable diseases. Conjoined efforts
Health is one of the most important determinants have proved efficacious and independent
of quality of life and directly contributes to evaluations have shown significant progress on
inter-generational mobility. Poor health limits key targeted indicators.
one's ability to work or educate them, reducing
economic opportunities, inhibit educational The interventions areas in 2021-2022
attainment and contribute to growth. India’s
health indicators lag behind its economic growth, Strengthening Community Level Institutional
ranking below most other neighbouring countries response
in life expectancy, maternal mortality and
infant mortality.
Facilitating last mile delivery of essential
healthcare services, social entitlements and
government schemes
About 7% of Indians are pushed into
poverty each year due to unaffordable

health care, a figure that has Strengthening existing public health
facilities and improving quality of services
remained constant for decades. Only leveraging available resource allocation

27% of the population is covered by under XV-FC Health Sector Grant, Tribal Sub
Plan and National Health Mission
health insurance. India healthcare is
delivered either by public or private Creation of environments for deployment of

providers. The public healthcare new innovative solutions like tele-medicines
focuses on delivering primary The focus of our work is to build health seeking
healthcare through community health behaviour, community response and work

program mainly focused on reducing closely with government systems at all levels to
ensure its ownership.
mortality and morbidity caused by

communicable and
non-communicable diseases.

Transforming Rural India Foundation has
focused on accelerated improvement in Health
and Nutrition outcomes among women and
children, through a comprehensive approach
that converges efforts on augmenting public
health and nutrition services together with
promoting community action driven by
women collectives.

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