Measuring progress: The Hindu Editorial on the lessons of National Family Health Survey-5
3 years ago

Measuring progress: The Hindu Editorial on the lessons of National Family Health Survey-5

The Hindu  

A periodic assessment of health and social development indicators is crucial for any country that is still clawing its way towards achieving ideal standards in the Human Development Index. While gender ratio has, for the first time, recorded more women per 1,000 men, gender ratio at birth in the last five years still underlines the persistence of a deep-rooted son preference, one that has to be countered, through policy and law. This massive exercise that covered, this year, over six lakh households across the country, aims at providing data that will help shape the policies in a manner that will correct deficiencies, and ensure equitable access to services, particularly those with impact on social determinants that improve the quality of life. Inputs on marriage and fertility, family planning, access to education and health services are provided by the NFHS, arguably second only to the exhaustive data that the decennial population census throws up.

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‘Lifestyle diseases increase in rural India’: NMC health survey
3 months ago

‘Lifestyle diseases increase in rural India’: NMC health survey

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Hypertension and diabetes are some of the common lifestyle diseases seen in rural India according to a new survey conducted by the National Medical Commission. Additionally, 14.4 per cent of the 3,66,086 people screened for blood sugar levels were diagnosed with diabetes. The survey also found 15 per cent of 57,940 children stunted, 10.5 per cent wasted, and …

Economic Survey 2023-24: Obesity crisis in India, preventive measures needed
5 months ago

Economic Survey 2023-24: Obesity crisis in India, preventive measures needed

The Hindu  

The Economic Survey of India 2023-24, tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in both houses of Parliament on Monday, July 22, the first day of the Budget Session, has pointed out that improving the quality of health of India’s young population, is crucial. The ICMR had released 17 dietary guidelines, and had said, “a significant proportion of premature deaths …

India's elderly population expected to double by 2050, with 346 million aged 60 and above: UNFPA
5 months ago

India's elderly population expected to double by 2050, with 346 million aged 60 and above: UNFPA

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: India's elderly population is expected to double by 2050, UNFPA India chief Andrea Wojnar said, stressing that more investment in healthcare, housing and pensions is needed, especially for older women who are "more likely to live alone and face poverty." "With India projected to be 50 percent urban by 2050, building smart cities, strong infrastructure, and affordable housing …

COMMENT | Don’t shoot the messenger: Modi government’s uneasy relationship with survey findings
1 year, 3 months ago

COMMENT | Don’t shoot the messenger: Modi government’s uneasy relationship with survey findings

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 26, 2023 16:21 IST - 6 MINS READ The findings of household surveys provide valuable information on the state of the nation and the well-being of its population. For example, Dr Shamika Ravi, member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, argued that India’s surveys have a rural bias and are based on “unsound data collection frameworks” …

Linear regression: The Hindu Editorial on the government’s response to data on its policies
1 year, 4 months ago

Linear regression: The Hindu Editorial on the government’s response to data on its policies

The Hindu  

Even as the Union government suggests that there were prima facie reasons for the suspension of the Director of the International Institute for Population Sciences, K.S. Other surveys, i.e., the National Statistical Office survey from October 2018, the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey of 2019-20 and the Multiple Indicator Survey released earlier this year, also indicated that many villages were …

More than 90 million Indians spend ‘catastrophic’ 10-25% of household expenses on healthcare
1 year, 5 months ago

More than 90 million Indians spend ‘catastrophic’ 10-25% of household expenses on healthcare

Hindustan Times  

Healthcare expenditure of around 90 million Indians has crossed the ‘catastrophic’ levels – a state of financial condition where health spending exceeds 10% threshold of household consumption, posing a threat to maintain the subsistence needs. According to the Sustainable Development Goals National Indicator Framework Progress Report 2023, a total of 31 million people living in families spend more that a …

India looks at devising its own standards to assess socio-economic progress
1 year, 6 months ago

India looks at devising its own standards to assess socio-economic progress

The Hindu  

Health activists are divided about the Central Government’s move to discard what it calls the one-size-fit-all international data parameters used to measure the socio-economic progress of the country. Central Government has cited three widely used data-driven development indicators — childhood stunting, female labour force participation rate by International Labour Organization and life expectancy at birth by United Nations in its …

Explained | Why is India rethinking its anaemia policy?
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained | Why is India rethinking its anaemia policy?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Questions related to anaemia are slated to be dropped from the National Family Health Survey scheduled to begin on July 6. According to the World Health Organization, anaemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or the haemoglobin concentration within them is lower than normal. According to the Health Ministry, assessment of …

Saving mothers: The Hindu Editorial on the importance of maternal health
2 years, 5 months ago

Saving mothers: The Hindu Editorial on the importance of maternal health

The Hindu  

Few things in science or social science are as incontestable as the importance of maternal health to human development. Maternal mortality indicates a woman’s ability to access health care, contraceptive devices, nutrition, and, in a sense, is a mark of the efficiency of a health-care system in responding to demands made of it. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed …

Data | Burden of family planning falls on women in India, female sterilisation widely preferred
2 years, 5 months ago

Data | Burden of family planning falls on women in India, female sterilisation widely preferred

The Hindu  

Awareness of family planning and contraceptive methods has seen an increase, according to NFHS-5. But the data also shows that 24% of women don’t find family planning necessary. Further, the knowledge of contraception is not fully bridging the gap in women’s family planning need - a trend seen across States Knowing your options The chart shows the awareness of select …

Key indicators from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) 2019-21 factsheet
2 years, 7 months ago

Key indicators from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) 2019-21 factsheet

Hindustan Times  

The National Family Health Survey 2019-21, the fifth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state/Union Territory. The NFHS-5 sample has been designed to provide national, state/UT, and district level estimates of various indicators covered in the survey. As in the earlier rounds, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of …

Measuring the change: The Hindu Editorial on reliability of socio-economic surveys
2 years, 7 months ago

Measuring the change: The Hindu Editorial on reliability of socio-economic surveys

The Hindu  

The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey provides a valuable insight into changes underway in Indian society. When highlights were made public last year, the focus was on India’s declining total fertility rate that had, for the first time in the country’s history, dipped to below the replacement level, or a TFR of 2.1. If the trend were …

Fertility falls, obesity goes up in India , says National Family Health Survey
2 years, 7 months ago

Fertility falls, obesity goes up in India , says National Family Health Survey

The Hindu  

The Total Fertility Rate, an average number of children per woman, has further declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between National Family Health Survey 4 and 5. There are only five States in India which are above replacement level of fertility of 2.1 — Bihar, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand Manipur — as per the national report of …

In NFHS report card, the good, the sober, the future
2 years, 11 months ago

In NFHS report card, the good, the sober, the future

The Hindu  

The health system in India has been facing unprecedented stress during the COVID-19 pandemic which includes the looming Omicron threat now on the horizon. NFHS-5, which presents a bird’s eye view of the state of the nation’s health and related development indicators, looks encouraging on several fronts: population growth is stabilising, family planning services have improved, and health systems are …

Needed, a public health data architecture for India
3 years ago

Needed, a public health data architecture for India

The Hindu  

In a country perennially thirsty for reliable health data, the National Family Health Survey is like an oasis. Each survey costs upwards of ₹250 crore and the funding for different rounds of NFHS has been provided by the United States Agency for International Development, the Department for International Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, the United Nations Population …

Families in distress: Latest NFHS findings paint bleak picture
3 years ago

Families in distress: Latest NFHS findings paint bleak picture

The Hindu  

Towards the end of November 2021, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released two interesting documents. The report on NHA claimed that the share of the government’s health expenditure in the total gross domestic product increased from 1.15 per cent to 1.35 per cent in 2017-18. Likewise, it said, the share of total government expenditure in total health expenditure …

A close reading of the NFHS-5, the health of India
3 years ago

A close reading of the NFHS-5, the health of India

The Hindu  

The national health and demographic report card is finally completely out. For now, we need to appreciate the progress, especially given the abysmal state of India’s health infrastructure, which has been tragically apparent since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Editorial | Measuring progress: On the lessons of National Family Health Survey-5 To gauge this, the key metric to examine would be …

National Family Health Survey says women outnumber men
3 years ago

National Family Health Survey says women outnumber men

The Hindu  

The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey confirmed signs of a demographic shift in India. However, sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years only improved from 919 per 1,000 males in 2015-16 to 929 per 1,000, underscoring that boys, on average, continued to have better odds of survival than girls. Editorial | Measuring …

T.N. ahead in reproductive, child health
3 years ago

T.N. ahead in reproductive, child health

The Hindu  

With significant improvements in several social and health parameters, when compared with the previous edition, the National Family Health Survey 5 seems to have set the State on its regular path ahead yet again, particularly in reproductive and child health. While the drastic reduction in vaccination rates during NFHS 4 was disconcerting for a State that is usually ahead of …

NFHS Survey: Fertility rate dips to 2.0; more than half women, children anaemic in 14 states, UTs
3 years ago

NFHS Survey: Fertility rate dips to 2.0; more than half women, children anaemic in 14 states, UTs

Firstpost  

The Centre has released the factsheets of key indicators on population, reproductive and child health, family welfare, nutrition and others for India as well as 14 states and UTs under phase two, of the 2019-21 NFHS-5 New Delhi: Anaemia among children and women continues to be a cause of concern, with more than half of them being found anaemic in …

More hospital births, but limited gains in childhood nutrition: National Family Health Survey-5
3 years ago

More hospital births, but limited gains in childhood nutrition: National Family Health Survey-5

The Hindu  

Births in institutional facilities, such as a hospital, improved by nearly eight percentage points but children who were either stunted or displayed signs of wasting only dropped by a maximum of three percentage points, shows a comparison of National Family Health Survey-5 and NFHS-4. While the increase in the use of modern contraceptive methods is heartening, an increase in female …

Bihar health minister for mass campaign to control population
3 years, 5 months ago

Bihar health minister for mass campaign to control population

Hindustan Times  

Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey on Wednesday advocated for a mass campaign with public support to control population boom in the state, that had shown a decadal growth rate of 25.1% in the last census. Pandey said it was due to social mobilisation campaign and mass awareness drive that for the first time this year, the state’s decadal population growth …

Latest NFHS data reveal high levels of anaemia across nation
3 years, 11 months ago

Latest NFHS data reveal high levels of anaemia across nation

The Hindu  

The recently released data of the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey offer little to feel optimistic about. In private health facilities, Caesarean births accounted for 63 per cent of all deliveries, while the corresponding figure for public health facilities was 26.6 per cent. In Andhra Pradesh, for instance, 52 per cent of children under three years were …

First phase of National Family Health Survey-5 shows startling trends in out-of-pocket health expenses
3 years, 11 months ago

First phase of National Family Health Survey-5 shows startling trends in out-of-pocket health expenses

Firstpost  

Despite swift advances in healthcare, Universal Health Coverage remains a distant dream for India. Image credit: Pixabay NFHS data reveals healthcare costs The Out-of-Pocket expenditure incurred by people while accessing public health services is on the rise. NFHS V data reveals that average out of pocket expenditure per delivery in a public health facility has risen in 10 states and …

Health data shows India doesn’t need a two-child policy: experts
4 years ago

Health data shows India doesn’t need a two-child policy: experts

The Hindu  

The latest data from the National Family Health Survey-5 provides evidence of an uptake in the use of modern contraceptives in rural and urban areas, an improvement in family planning demands being met, and a decline in the average number of children borne by a woman, and prove that the country’s population is stabilising and fears over a “population explosion” …

Discouraging numbers: On National Family Health Survey 2019-20
4 years ago

Discouraging numbers: On National Family Health Survey 2019-20

The Hindu  

With a debilitating death toll and an economic recession, India has had among the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But an express indication of the possible scale of the crisis can be gleaned from the data from the newly released National Family Health Survey 2019-20 which was conducted before the pandemic and its impact. In indicators related to women’s …

National Family Health Survey: As Covid swirls, lifestyle diseases rise in India
4 years ago

National Family Health Survey: As Covid swirls, lifestyle diseases rise in India

India Today  

One thing that the new National Family Health Survey has clearly established is that child health has suffered much in the last five years. The new official data, released by the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on December 12, is from the first phase of the 2019-20 round of India's official health data household survey. The data shows that most …

NFHS throws up a mixed bag for State
4 years ago

NFHS throws up a mixed bag for State

The Hindu  

The latest National Family Health Survey, conducted under the aegis of the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare, has thrown up a mixed bag for the State. But, the sheer drop in universal immunisation figures and nutritional parameters — an increase in anaemia across all age groups, increase in wasting and stunting in children under five years — calls …

Mortality Rate of Infants, Those Under Five Years Dip in 18 States and UTs, Reveals National Health Survey
4 years ago

Mortality Rate of Infants, Those Under Five Years Dip in 18 States and UTs, Reveals National Health Survey

News 18  

Mortality rate among infants and those under five years of age fell in 18 states and union territories out of a total 22 surveyed, while 16 of them registered a rise in the percentage of under-five children who are underweight and severely wasted, according to the fifth National Family Health Survey. Thirteen states and UTs out of the 22 surveyed …

Cannot force couples into family planning: govt. tells Supreme Court
4 years ago

Cannot force couples into family planning: govt. tells Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Centre told the Supreme Court on Saturday that it was against coercing couples into having a “certain number of children” in a bid to curb population explosion. “The Family Welfare Programme in India is voluntary in nature, which enables couples to decide the size of their family and adopt the family planning methods, best suited to them, according to …

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