Growth and Composition of Health Infrastructure: a Comparative Study Between Tamil Nadu and All India

The Integrated Disease Surveillance Project was set up to establish a dedicated highway of information relating to disease occurrence required for prevention and containment at the community level, but the slow pace of improvement is due to poor efforts in involving the critical actors outside the public sector. Public health diagnostic laboratories have a good capacity to support the government’s diagnostic and research work on health risks and threats, but are not being utilized efficiently. Secluded out-of-pocket expenditure controls the cost funding health care, the effects are certain to be returning. Introduction of effective efficient quality control systems is necessary to prevent over use, under use, abuse, misuse of facilities, improve effectiveness, efficiency and bring in accountability in the health system. The new agenda of the future Public health strategies may include the epidemiological transition (rising burden of chronic non-communicable diseases), demographic transition (increasing elderly population) and environmental changes.