| The author outlines developments in the health field and indicates health objectives of the Government of India. He summarizes the structure of India's health administration and points out that India was the first country to adopt family planning as a national policy. Trained doctors and medical teachers are urgently needed. Distribution of doctors is uneven with most engaged in private practice. The Fourth Five Year Plan proposes further training and hospital facilities. Although there have been improvements in education of nursing and paramedical staff, much remains to be done. Construction of health facilities is being undertaken in rural areas. The fields of public health, general sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, school health, and communicable disease control are discussed. In Burma, the overriding problem is a financial one. Special programmes deal with malnutrition and communicable diseases. Burma's health organization unified curative, preventive, and social medicine; a system of rural health centres staffed by health assistants is well established. The author outlines Burma's health administration. There is only one doctor per 9 000 population and the shortage of nurses is acute. A school of paramedical science has been established at Rangoon to train health assistants and teaching programmes for other medical personnel are being expanded. Public health activities cover general sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, etc. |