Raipur, On account of the
essential data needed by the Central and State Governments to formulate
policies on important health and family welfare issues, India’s globally
recognized and leading healthcare research institutions, IIHMR University has
been assigned by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to execute
National Family Health Survey (NFHS4) as field agency to conduct field work in
the state of Chhattisgarh. The survey is designed to provide information on
population, family planning, maternal and child health, child survival,
HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), reproductive health, and
nutrition in India
Dr. SD. Gupta,
President, IIHMR University
said, “We take pride in announcing that we have been assigned by the Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to conduct the field survey
for NFHS4. The NFHS4 conducted will include 29 states along with 6 Union
Territories which have been included for the first time nationally. The survey
will provide estimates of most indicators at the district level for all 640
districts in the country. IIHMR University Jaipur will cover 946 Primary Sampling Units (PSU) from 18 districts of Chhattisgarh (as per
Census 2011). From these PSUs, 18,920
households (HH) will be covered. Out of the total PSUs 15,620 households (HH)
will be covered for district module (22 HH will be selected from each PSU where
all eligible female’s interview will be done), whereas state module will be
executed in 300 PSUs covering 3,300 HH, in which eligible men will
also be included in the survey.”
Dr. Gupta added, “There are significant social, regional and
genders disparities in accessing public health in Chhattisgarh. Interior
regions in general and tribal districts in particular have poor physical and
economic access to health services. The private health care system is generally
less developed in interior areas and is not economically accessible. Low female
literacy levels also adversely impact reproductive child health care in tribal
and other interior areas. The Infant Mortality Rate (SRS 2013) is 46 whereas
the Maternal Mortality Rate (SRS 2013) is 269 in the state. The nutritional
status of children under five in Chhattisgarh, as indicated in the NFHS-3,
shows that more than half of children (53%) in Chhattisgarh are stunted, or too
short for their age, which indicates that they have been undernourished for
some time. One-fifth of children (20%) are wasted, or too thin for their
height, which may result from inadequate recent food intake or a recent
illness. Forty-seven percent children are underweight, which takes into account
both chronic and acute under-nutrition. Prevalence of severe malnutrition among
children, mothers, old and indigent people is a matter of serious concern in the
State. Under-nutrition among adult women is more prevalent in Chhattisgarh than
among women of all other states except Bihar and more prevalent among adult men
of Chhattisgarh than among men of all other states except Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, and Jharkhand. The proportion of overweight/obese adults in
Chhattisgarh is lower than in most other states and thus lower than the
national average of 13 percent. Overall, only 51 percent of women and 57
percent of men in Chhattisgarh are at a healthy weight for their height.”
Thus, through the
NFHS4 survey IIHMR University shall be able to achieve the goals of NFHS i.e to
provide essential data on health and family welfare for policy and programmes
purposes and providing information on important emerging health and family
welfare issues. The NFHS4 will provide information on Peri-natal mortality,
adolescent reproductive health, high-risk sexual behaviour, safe injections,
tuberculosis, and malaria interventions;health and family welfare conditions
among slum dwellers;non-communicable diseases;use of emergency contraception;
andHIV prevalence for adult women and men at the national level and for several
groups of states/union territories (UTs) including high HIV prevalence states.
Thus with all these
challenges, in the state of Chhattisgarh, it is very much necessary to gauge
the health indicators at regular period of time so that every issue could be
addressed with management perspective.
IIHMR University is a
WHO Collaborating Center for District and Primary Healthcare in the State of
Rajasthan. The IIHMR University to contribute to the health sector and to fill
in the gap of increasing number of healthcare management personnel’s provides
various MBA programmes such as, MBA Hospital and Health with 5 specializations
(Hospital Management, Health Management, Health Economics, Finance and
Insurance, Human Resource Management, Procurement and Supply Chain Management),
MBA Rural Management and MBA Pharmaceutical Management. For more information please log on http://www.iihmr.edu.in/.
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