Why in news?
National Family Health Survey-4 was conducted across 26 states and Union Territories.
What are the findings of the survey?
- This is the first time the government has conducted a survey to find out the incidence of diabetes and hypertension.
- More than a fifth of India’s 125-crore population suffers from diabetes and hypertension.
- The overall incidence of diabetes was 20.3 % and that of hypertension 22.2 %.
- States with a higher incidence of hypertension include Punjab (35%), Sikkim (44.8%) and Maharashtra (26%).
- States with the incidence of diabetes to be higher than the national average include Goa (33.7%), West Bengal (28.2 %), Assam (34.6 %) and Odisha (27.2 %).
- The deliveries by caesarean section are disproportionately high in private hospitals as compared to government ones making it way above the WHO’s expected rate in any population i.e 25 %.
- The percentage of caesarean sections is the highest in private hospitals of urban Tripura — 87.1 %.
- Urban private hospitals of Telangana are a close second with 74.8 % caesarean deliveries, and West Bengal comes third with 74.7 %.
- The sex ratio improved from 914 to 919 at the national level over the last decade, with the top three states being Kerala (1,047), Meghalaya (1,009) and Chhattisgarh (977).
- In Haryana the sex ratio went down from 897 in NFHS-3 to 876.
Source: The Indian Express
