N R H M - National Rural Health Mission is now a popular health program known all over India. Many health indicators are in dismal state. It is one of the BIMARU state ( a term - popular among doctors). Other states among BIMARU states are Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. National Rural Health Mission is active in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest populated state of India. Population of UP is equivalent to country of Brazil. UP comprises of 16% of India's population and 9% of area.
India's Ministry of Health was established with independence from Britain in 1947. The government has made health a priority in its series of five-year plans, each of which determines state spending priorities for the coming five years. The National Health Policy was endorsed by Parliament in 1983. The policy aimed at universal health care coverage by 2000, and the program was updated in 2002.

The health care system in India is primarily administered by the states. India's Constitution tasks each state with providing health care for its people. In order to address lack of medical coverage in rural areas, the national government launched the National Rural Health Mission in 2005. This mission focuses resources on rural areas and poor states which have weak health services in the hope of improving health care in India's poorest regions.

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