Open AccessAssessment of village health sanitation and nutrition committees of Chandigarh, India
Author(s) -
Reetu Passi,
Sonu Goel,
Sangeeta Ajay
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_244_16
Subject(s) - checklist , sanitation , municipal corporation , public health , mandate , psychological intervention , medicine , national rural health mission , environmental health , community health , socioeconomics , monitoring and evaluation , business , health services , economic growth , population , nursing , political science , psychology , pathology , sociology , law , cognitive psychology , economics
Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs), one of the key interventions introduced by National Rural Health Mission, are an important mechanism to ensure community participation and ownership for decentralized health planning.