National Family Health Survey

Decisions on how a wife’s income is used are increasingly being decided jointly by the couple rather than by the woman

India will get older before it gets richer

India's demographic dividend will last for some time but cease growing. The right policies, however, can still lead to better outcomes

Only 59% households use clean fuel for cooking; 19% don’t have access to toilet, shows National Family Health Survey-5

The information collected through NFHS-5 assists policymakers and programme managers in setting benchmarks and examining progress over time in India’s health sector

UP population growth slowed without a law curbing large families

The National Family Health Survey suggests that the fall of TFR from 2.7 in 2015-16 was an outcome of significant improvements achieved on various social indicators, chiefly education and health.

NFHS5 is a mixed bag of pluses and minuses for India under the NDA government 

India slipped on key malnutrition parameters, including the prevalence of anaemia among women and children, in four out of five years of the NDA’s first term in government. On some indicators, including the incidence of stunting and wasting, the performance improved

Over half the women, children in 14 states and UTs found to be anaemic: Survey

The Government of India on November 24 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, clubbed under phase two, of the 2019-21 NFHS-5.

National Family Health Survey | Sex ratio of total population improves in 17 states/UTs, Himachal fares worst with 835 female births per 1,000 males in 5 years

Kerala, which was among the few states that had earlier recorded a positive sex ratio in the last National Family Health Survey, saw its sex ratio decline to 951 from a remarkable 1,047.

National Family Health Survey | India’s population is stabilising; fertility rate drops, contraceptive use on rise

All Phase-1 states where fieldwork has been done except Bihar, Manipur, and Meghalaya now have a TFR of 2.1 or less.

National Family Health Survey | Over 60% women in 12 states and UTs have not been on the internet

According to the National Family Health Survey, only 20.6 percent women in Bihar used the internet, followed by 21 percent in Andhra Pradesh, and 22.9 percent in Tripura.

India’s nutrition goals are stumped by execution challenges

Lack of timely data and weak political will are trouble spots even though the government has “a clear intent” to make India free of malnutrition

Experts Call for Universal Access to Healthcare

Experts called for universal access to health care, substantial augmentation of human resources in the medical field, increasing access to drugs and ...