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News: India recorded improvements in maternal and child health, while NFHS-6 reported a rise in lifestyle-related diseases among adults.
Key Highlights of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6)
- Released by: It is released by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai.
- IIPS is the nodal agency designated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) for coordination and technical guidance.
- Survey Period: NFHS-6 was conducted during 2023–24.
- Key features of NFHS-6:
- Coverage: The survey covered 6.79 lakh households across 715 districts, excluding Manipur.
- New Areas: It included Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), Self-Help Groups (SHGs), digital literacy, digital financial transactions.
- It expanded clinical, anthropometric, and biochemical (CAB) testing, including HIV testing.
- Technology: It fully adopted Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) for real-time data validation and improved accuracy.
- Key Findings of NFHS-6 (Comparison between NFHS-5: 2019–21 and NFHS-6: 2023–24)
- Maternal Health
- Institutional Deliveries: Institutional deliveries increased from 88.6% to 90.6%.
- Antenatal Care (ANC): ANC coverage increased from 92.6% to 95.9%, while mothers receiving at least four ANC visits increased from 58.5% to 65.2%.
- Skilled Birth Attendance: Births attended by skilled health personnel increased from 89.4% to 91.3%.
- Family Planning
- Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR): CPR increased from 66.7% to 69.1%.
- Unmet Need: The unmet need for family planning declined from 9.4% to 8.5%.
- Total Fertility Rate (TFR): TFR remained stable at 2.0, which is below the replacement level of 2.1.
- Child Health and Nutrition
- Full Immunisation: Coverage among children aged 12–23 months increased from 83.8% to 87.1%.
- Vaccination: Coverage of the second dose of the measles-containing vaccine increased from 58.6% to 71.8%,
- while rotavirus vaccine coverage increased from 36.4% to 85.4%.
- Nutrition: Stunting declined from 35.5% to 29.3%,
- while severe wasting declined from 7.7% to 5.2% among children under five years.
- Lifestyle Diseases
- Obesity: 30.7% of women and 27.3% of men aged 15–49 years were overweight or obese.
- High Blood Sugar: The proportion of adults with high blood sugar increased from 13.5% to 17.8% among women and from 15.6% to 20.9% among men above 15 years of age.
- Hypertension: The proportion of adults with hypertension declined from 21.3% to 19.4% among women and from 24.0% to 22.1% among men above 15 years of age.
- Maternal Health
About National Family Health Survey (NFHS)
- National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted on a representative sample of households across India.
- Origin: It was launched in 1992–93.
- Objective: It provides district-level data on health and family welfare for evidence-based policymaking and programme implementation.
