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Kerala is expanding mental healthcare services through Family Health Centres (FHCs), making counselling, psychiatric consultations, and early intervention more accessible. By integrating mental healthcare into primary healthcare, the initiative aims to reduce barriers such as cost, travel, and stigma.

There is a quiet but consequential shift taking place in India's public health policy. It is not occurring in hospitals crowded with patients or in villages where overburdened health workers continue their daily rounds. It is happening in policy documents, institutional restructuring and the language of governance. The vocabulary of "public health" is increasingly being replaced by that of "wellness", "personalised care" and "digital health". While these ideas carry undeniabl