Abstract
Mother & child health care remained at the core of health care delivery system in India since independence. India is the first country to launch a National Family Planning Program 1952 which focused mostly on population control. After almost 25 years ofoperation, it was revealed that population control goals cannot be attained in isolation, without ensuring health and well-being ofmothers and children. The ‘welfare’ concept was introduced in the National Family Welfare Programmelaunched in 1977.Inyear 1992, Child Survival and Safe Motherhood (CSSM) Programme was launched, where all MCH interventions, solong running vertically, were brought under single umbrella.Following the International Conference on Population Development(ICPD) held at Cairo in1994, Reproductive and Child Health(RCH) approach was adopted in India in 1997. RCH approachintegrated all existing MCH interventions with two additional components of adolescent health and management of RTIs& STIs.
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