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• National Family Health Survey – 5 (NFHS)
• Reports

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1) NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY – 5 (NFHS)

• Details: About NFHS
  • The NFHS is a large-scale, multi-round survey, conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. First survey was done in 1992-94 and since then 5 rounds have been conducted.
• Who conducts this survey?
  • International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, is the National Nodal Agency.
  • MoHFW has decided to conduct integrated NFHS with a periodicity of three years in lieu of different surveys from 2015-16 onwards to meet the evolving requirements for frequent, timely and appropriate data at the National, State and District level.
• NFHS-5: Key Highlights

Sl. No.	Indicator	NFHS-5 (2019-21)	NFHS-4 (2015-16)
	Fertility and Family Planning
1	Total Fertility Rate (TFR)	2.0	2.2
2	Women age 15-19 years who were already mothers or pregnant at the time of the survey (%)	6.8	7.9
3	Current Use of Family Planning Methods-Any method (%)	66.7	53.5
4	Current Use of Family Planning Methods-Any modern method (%)	56.4	47.8
5	Total unmet need for Family Planning (%)	9.4	12.9
	Maternity and Delivery Care
6	Mothers who had an antenatal check-up in the first trimester (%)	70.0	58.6
7	Mothers who had at least 4 antenatal care visits (%)	58.5	51.2
8	Mothers who received postnatal care from a doctor/nurse/LHV/ANM/midwife/other health personnel within 2 days of delivery (%)	78.0	62.4
9	Institutional births (%)	88.6	78.9
	Child Vaccination and Child Feeding Practices
10	Children age 12-23 months fully vaccinated based on information from either vaccination card or mother's recall (%)	76.6	62.0
11	Children under age 6 months exclusively breastfed (%)	63.7	54.9
	Infant and Child Mortality Rates (per 1000 live births)
12	Neonatal Mortality Rate (NNMR)	24.9	29.5
13	Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)	35.2	40.7
14	Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR)	41.9	49.7

2) REPORTS

1) ‘HEALTHY STATES, PROGRESSIVE INDIA’ – A REPORT BY NITI AAYOG

• Introduction
  • It is a comprehensive health index report which ranks states and UTs innovatively on their year on year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as their overall performance with each other.
  • The report has been prepared by NITI Aayog with technical assistance from WB, and consultation with MoH&FW.
  • States and UTs have been ranked in 3 categories namely Larger states, smaller states, and Union Territories (UTs) to ensure comparison among similar entities.
  • The health index is a weighted composite index based on 24 indicators grouped under three domains, with each domain assigned weights based on its importance and higher scores for outcome indicators.
    • Health Outcomes (70%);
    • Governance and Information (12%);
    • Key inputs and processes (18%),
• Significance – An annual systematic tool; regular assessment of health sector; nudge badly performing states to do well; helps to move towards SDG goals.