Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health

Monitoring and Evaluation. M and E: A Tool in Health Development

Abstract

Tridibesh Tripathy, Shankar Das, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Rakesh Dwivedi, Mohini Gautam, Sanskriti Tripathy, and Anjali Tripathy

An integral component of progress is to act upon feedback related to work. The feedback process is elicited through the application of tools such as Monitoring Evaluation (M and E). The current article touches upon the circle of M and E especially in the health sector of the nation. The base of the article is the Health Survey Development Committee or the Bhore committee report that the country got just before independence. Through the progress from 1946 to present day in the health sector, the article chooses some critical indicators to bring home the point. As the component of M and E is a cross cutting element, the article aspires that a regular process of feedback where both quantitative approaches go hand in hand to aid to the process of development. The basic trajectory of development is also projected in the article through the health sector lens.

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