Is There A Huge Research Gap In Indian Public Health System? A Review On Published Articles Related To National Health Programmes, In The Pubmed Indexed Journals.

Abstract

Background: Public health system in India has many national health programmes. Research is largely driven with the donor agencies, which may not have linkage to the actual needs of the programmes. Objectives: to understand the research gap in Indian Public Health System with respect to the National Health Programs. Methodology: Top ten national health programmes were selected based on the expert’s programmes. Pubmed search was made for the past five years using keywords as the name of the health programme or its abbreviation. Results: Among the total 1053 line listed articles, only 304 articles have been included after a careful reading of title and abstract. Important key findings in our study are more than half (58%) of the researches are published in RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme) followed by JSY (Janani Sureksha Yojana Scheme) which is 13%. Other national health programmes have very fewer publications including an important health programme, NACP (National AIDS Control Programme). Conclusion: There is a huge disparity in the number of published researches among each selected important national health programmes. There is a need to set up an operational research committee in each state to promote research.