ABSTRACT
“Mission Aardram” synonymously can be called as pillar of Kerala model of Development as it has been implemented for the provision of wellbeing of the citizen. Developing nations are facing issues related to the health care offered by the nation to its public hence in turn affect its human development index (HDI). Life Expectancy Index, Education Index and Gross National Income index are the different indicators of HDI which comes from the different dimensions, say, Long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living respectively. Mission Aardram is concentrating more on the first dimension of HDI, i.e.; Long and healthy Life. In order to keep its people healthy, the state of Kerala has taken an initiative called “Mission Aardram” as part of “Nava Kerala Karma Padhathi”. The Government of Kerala has implemented such a Novel scheme to provide good health care to its people by transforming all Primary Health Centres (PHC) into Family Health Centres (FHC) as the first stage health delivery point, then they intend to strengthen the system by offering five kinds of services, namely, Promotive services, Preventive Services, Palliative services, Rehabilitative services and Curative services. It is mentioned by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that Mission Aardram has the main six characteristics that should have in any good quality health care system. As per the word of IOM if a health care system is said to be of good quality if and only if the system has Patient safety, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Patient-centered focus, Timely Referral Care and equity in treatment. Hence it is important to evaluate the role of Mission Aardram in delivering public health care by analyzing the above-mentioned factors.