Why in News?

• The Union Health Minister released the National Health Profile, 2019.

National Health Profile (NHP):

• The NHP is prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) and covers comprehensive information on demographic, socio-economic health status, health finance indicators, health infrastructure and health of human resources in the country.
• 2019 is the 14^th year the NHP is being released.
• It was released for the first time in 2005.
• A digital version of the report was also released.
• The objective of the NHP is to create a versatile database of health information and making it available to all stakeholders in the healthcare sector.
• The NHP highlights substantial health information under major indicators viz. demographic indicators (population and vital statistics), socio-economic indicators (education, employment, housing and amenities, drinking water and sanitation) and health status indicators (incidence and prevalence of common communicable and non-communicable diseases and RCH), etc.
• The health finance section provides an overview of health insurance and expenditure on health, both public and Out of Pocket Expenditure (OOP), etc.
• The section on human resources provides an overview of availability of manpower working in the health sector, while health infrastructure section provides details of medical and dental colleges, AYUSH institutes, nursing courses and paramedical courses, etc.