The National Health Mission (NHM) is Government of India's (GoI) largest public health programme.

It consists of two submissions:

• National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and
• National Urban Health Mission (NUHM)

Using government data, this brief reports on:

• Allocations, releases and expenditures for NHM
• NHM component-wise approvals and expenditures
• Outputs: Infrastructure and human resources
• Outcomes: maternal and child health and Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) burden