What are the strategies of the NRHM?
While providing a broad framework for operationalization, NRHM lists a set of core and supplementary strategies to meet its goals. Core strategies of NRHM include: Decentralized village and district level health planning and management, appointment of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) to facilitate access to health services, strengthening the public health service delivery infrastructure, particularly at village, primary and secondary levels, mainstreaming AYUSH, improved management capacity to organize health systems and services in public health, emphasizing evidence based planning and implementation through improved capacity and infrastructure, promoting the non profit sector to increase social participation and community empowerment, promoting healthy behaviors, and improving intersectoral convergence. Supplementary Strategies include regulation of the private sector to improve equity and reduce out of pocket expenses, foster publicprivate partnerships to meet national publi