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-Economic and Political Weekly&lt;br /&gt;
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NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Data on India&amp;rsquo;s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005&amp;ndash;06, 1998&amp;ndash;99 and 1992&amp;ndash;93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations.&lt;br /&gt;
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The data fact sheets released allow preliminary comparisons with NFHS-3. For instance, the percentage of stunted children under five years of age has reduced from 48% in 2005&amp;ndash;06 to 38% in 2015&amp;ndash;16, indicating a reduction in malnutrition. Yet, undernutrition remains prevalent compared to global statistics. On the positive side, the percentage of children who are fully immunised has increased from 44% to 62%. Also, the total fertility rate (TFR) is now at replacement level with TFR coming down from 2.7 to 2.2.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Another encouraging development is the increase in institutional deliveries&amp;mdash;79% (95% amongst highest wealth quintile and 60% amongst lowest) from 39% (84% in highest wealth quintile and 13% amongst lowest). More women have used public facilities for deliveries&amp;mdash;52% as compared to 18%. This shows that more women will use public facilities, instead of private, if they are available. There is no doubt that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), despite their shortcomings, contributed to this expansion and shift.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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-Economic and Political Weekly&lt;br /&gt;
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NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Data on India&amp;rsquo;s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005&amp;ndash;06, 1998&amp;ndash;99 and 1992&amp;ndash;93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations.&lt;br /&gt;
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NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Data on India&amp;rsquo;s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005&amp;ndash;06, 1998&amp;ndash;99 and 1992&amp;ndash;93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The data fact sheets released allow preliminary comparisons with NFHS-3. For instance, the percentage of stunted children under five years of age has reduced from 48% in 2005&amp;ndash;06 to 38% in 2015&amp;ndash;16, indicating a reduction in malnutrition. Yet, undernutrition remains prevalent compared to global statistics. On the positive side, the percentage of children who are fully immunised has increased from 44% to 62%. Also, the total fertility rate (TFR) is now at replacement level with TFR coming down from 2.7 to 2.2.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Another encouraging development is the increase in institutional deliveries&amp;mdash;79% (95% amongst highest wealth quintile and 60% amongst lowest) from 39% (84% in highest wealth quintile and 13% amongst lowest). More women have used public facilities for deliveries&amp;mdash;52% as compared to 18%. This shows that more women will use public facilities, instead of private, if they are available. There is no doubt that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), despite their shortcomings, contributed to this expansion and shift.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These positives apart, the NFHS-4 also highlights a number of areas, both old and new, where concerted action is needed. First, although there is an improvement in a number of indicators across class, caste, and region, the gaps are still wide. For instance, NFHS-4 finds that one in two children belonging to households in the lowest quintile (51%) are stunted and underweight (49%), while the corresponding figures for the highest quintile are 22% and 20%. Also, while only 25% of mothers in the lowest quintile had at least four antenatal visits, the percentage was 73% for mothers in the highest quintile. NFHS-4 shows that regional and socio-economic differences continue to persist. So Bihar continues to lag behind in areas like TFR&amp;mdash;3.4 in Bihar (which was the all-India TFR in 1991&amp;ndash;92) while it is 1.7 in Tamil Nadu. Similarly, Uttar Pradesh has an infant mortality rate (IMR) of 64 compared to 28 in Karnataka.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The data highlights certain hitherto neglected issues that need to be considered more seriously when planning for health policy. For instance, urban areas have largely been ignored by health interventions despite poor status of health. In a decade, the percentage of children fully immunised in urban areas is only 64% (62% in rural areas), a slight increase from 58% in NFHS-3. There is practically no difference between urban and rural in the percentage of children under three years of age who are breastfed within one hour of birth &amp;mdash;43% in urban areas and 41% in rural&amp;mdash;while infants exclusively breastfed under six months are more in rural areas than in urban&amp;mdash; 56% as compared to 52%. The prevalence of severe wasting (low weight for height) among children is the same in rural and urban areas (7.5%). Given the rate of urbanisation, it is essential that health interventions are designed keeping in mind urban contexts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Data on India&amp;rsquo;s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005&amp;ndash;06, 1998&amp;ndash;99 and 1992&amp;ndash;93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations.&lt;br /&gt;
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Another encouraging development is the increase in institutional deliveries&amp;mdash;79% (95% amongst highest wealth quintile and 60% amongst lowest) from 39% (84% in highest wealth quintile and 13% amongst lowest). More women have used public facilities for deliveries&amp;mdash;52% as compared to 18%. This shows that more women will use public facilities, instead of private, if they are available. There is no doubt that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), despite their shortcomings, contributed to this expansion and shift.&lt;br /&gt;
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-Economic and Political Weekly<br />
<em><br />
NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain.</em><br />
<br />
Data on India&rsquo;s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005&ndash;06, 1998&ndash;99 and 1992&ndash;93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations.<br />
<br />
The data fact sheets released allow preliminary comparisons with NFHS-3. For instance, the percentage of stunted children under five years of age has reduced from 48% in 2005&ndash;06 to 38% in 2015&ndash;16, indicating a reduction in malnutrition. Yet, undernutrition remains prevalent compared to global statistics. On the positive side, the percentage of children who are fully immunised has increased from 44% to 62%. Also, the total fertility rate (TFR) is now at replacement level with TFR coming down from 2.7 to 2.2.<br />
<br />
Another encouraging development is the increase in institutional deliveries&mdash;79% (95% amongst highest wealth quintile and 60% amongst lowest) from 39% (84% in highest wealth quintile and 13% amongst lowest). More women have used public facilities for deliveries&mdash;52% as compared to 18%. This shows that more women will use public facilities, instead of private, if they are available. There is no doubt that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), despite their shortcomings, contributed to this expansion and shift.<br />
<br />
These positives apart, the NFHS-4 also highlights a number of areas, both old and new, where concerted action is needed. First, although there is an improvement in a number of indicators across class, caste, and region, the gaps are still wide. For instance, NFHS-4 finds that one in two children belonging to households in the lowest quintile (51%) are stunted and underweight (49%), while the corresponding figures for the highest quintile are 22% and 20%. Also, while only 25% of mothers in the lowest quintile had at least four antenatal visits, the percentage was 73% for mothers in the highest quintile. NFHS-4 shows that regional and socio-economic differences continue to persist. So Bihar continues to lag behind in areas like TFR&mdash;3.4 in Bihar (which was the all-India TFR in 1991&ndash;92) while it is 1.7 in Tamil Nadu. Similarly, Uttar Pradesh has an infant mortality rate (IMR) of 64 compared to 28 in Karnataka.<br />
<br />
The data highlights certain hitherto neglected issues that need to be considered more seriously when planning for health policy. For instance, urban areas have largely been ignored by health interventions despite poor status of health. In a decade, the percentage of children fully immunised in urban areas is only 64% (62% in rural areas), a slight increase from 58% in NFHS-3. There is practically no difference between urban and rural in the percentage of children under three years of age who are breastfed within one hour of birth &mdash;43% in urban areas and 41% in rural&mdash;while infants exclusively breastfed under six months are more in rural areas than in urban&mdash; 56% as compared to 52%. The prevalence of severe wasting (low weight for height) among children is the same in rural and urban areas (7.5%). Given the rate of urbanisation, it is essential that health interventions are designed keeping in mind urban contexts.<br />
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NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain.</em><br />
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Data on India&rsquo;s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005&ndash;06, 1998&ndash;99 and 1992&ndash;93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations.<br />
<br />
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<br />
Another encouraging development is the increase in institutional deliveries&mdash;79% (95% amongst highest wealth quintile and 60% amongst lowest) from 39% (84% in highest wealth quintile and 13% amongst lowest). More women have used public facilities for deliveries&mdash;52% as compared to 18%. This shows that more women will use public facilities, instead of private, if they are available. There is no doubt that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), despite their shortcomings, contributed to this expansion and shift.<br />
<br />
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Long Way to Go

-Economic and Political Weekly NFHS-4 data shows improvements in health status, yet serious concerns remain. Data on India’s health status ought to inform policy. Unfortunately, this does not always follow. After a gap of 10 years, data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Like the previous surveys of 2005–06, 1998–99 and 1992–93, NFHS-4 provides information on demographic, health and nutritional data for adults and children at the all-India and state level. This time, the NFHS has expanded its sample to provide data that can be disaggregated up to the district level. This is useful to study the large intra-state variations. The data fact sheets released allow preliminary comparisons with NFHS-3. For instance, the percentage of stunted children under five years of age has reduced from 48% in 2005–06 to 38% in 2015–16, indicating a reduction in malnutrition. Yet, undernutrition remains prevalent compared to global statistics. On the positive side, the percentage of children who are fully immunised has increased from 44% to 62%. Also, the total fertility rate (TFR) is now at replacement level with TFR coming down from 2.7 to 2.2. Another encouraging development is the increase in institutional deliveries—79% (95% amongst highest wealth quintile and 60% amongst lowest) from 39% (84% in highest wealth quintile and 13% amongst lowest). More women have used public facilities for deliveries—52% as compared to 18%. This shows that more women will use public facilities, instead of private, if they are available. There is no doubt that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), despite their shortcomings, contributed to this expansion and shift. These positives apart, the NFHS-4 also highlights a number of areas, both old and new, where concerted action is needed. First, although there is an improvement in a number of indicators across class, caste, and region, the gaps are still wide. For instance, NFHS-4 finds that one in two children belonging to households in the lowest quintile (51%) are stunted and underweight (49%), while the corresponding figures for the highest quintile are 22% and 20%. Also, while only 25% of mothers in the lowest quintile had at least four antenatal visits, the percentage was 73% for mothers in the highest quintile. NFHS-4 shows that regional and socio-economic differences continue to persist. So Bihar continues to lag behind in areas like TFR—3.4 in Bihar (which was the all-India TFR in 1991–92) while it is 1.7 in Tamil Nadu. Similarly, Uttar Pradesh has an infant mortality rate (IMR) of 64 compared to 28 in Karnataka. The data highlights certain hitherto neglected issues that need to be considered more seriously when planning for health policy. For instance, urban areas have largely been ignored by health interventions despite poor status of health. In a decade, the percentage of children fully immunised in urban areas is only 64% (62% in rural areas), a slight increase from 58% in NFHS-3. There is practically no difference between urban and rural in the percentage of children under three years of age who are breastfed within one hour of birth —43% in urban areas and 41% in rural—while infants exclusively breastfed under six months are more in rural areas than in urban— 56% as compared to 52%. The prevalence of severe wasting (low weight for height) among children is the same in rural and urban areas (7.5%). Given the rate of urbanisation, it is essential that health interventions are designed keeping in mind urban contexts. Please click here to access