Sri Lanka: Adding Ergonomics Dimension in the Health Agenda.

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian subcontinent with approximately 21 million people [1]. The country has been recently identified as a Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) based on World Bank ratings with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of 3800 USD in 2015 [1, 2]. With an excellent human development index, Sri Lanka boasts of excellent health indicators on par with high income countries [1, 3]. Impressive achievements in health at low cost have been credited to the policies of successive governments in providing free health and free education for all for more than five decades. The government continues to provide health and education services without user fee maintaining an equitable and quality health care service in both curative and preventive arms. High levels of general and health literacy rates have contributed immensely to emerge Sri Lanka as a role model in the South Asian region.