{"id":152162,"date":"2021-12-09T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=152162"},"modified":"2021-12-09T20:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:14:25","slug":"dont-ignore-context-of-nfhs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dont-ignore-context-of-nfhs-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t ignore context of NFHS data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The NFHS data evolved much from the Demographic and Health Survey and became a well-structured one.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfhs-5-and-its-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What are the challenges associated with NFHS?<\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-nine-lives-of-indias-national-family-health-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The nine lives of India\u2019s National Family Health Survey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Why the challenges against NFHS are wrong?<\/h5>\n<p>According to the author, the criticisers did the same thing as Inequality Report 2021: India\u2019s Unequal Healthcare Story. Instead, the data sets have to be examined with respect to a group of indicators rather than only one indicator (Sex ratio) from the NFHS.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Data such as life expectancy of women, the incidence of institutional deliveries, total fertility rate, mothers who had an antenatal check-up should be examined.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: In The Inequality Report 2021: India\u2019s Unequal Healthcare Story published by Oxfam admitted that India at 1.1% had one of the lowest case fatality rates for Covid-19 as compared to richer countries like the US and France (1.8%) or Germany and Belgium (2.4%).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The report mentioned this is due to the demographic dividend, which is tilted more towards the younger population. The report criticised India\u2019s low hospital beds to population ratio. But the report never acknowledged the state of infrastructure, medical providers&#8217; excellent jobs, etc.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>What are the parameters India showed improvements in NFHS?<\/h5>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read here<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-health-ministry-releases-nfhs-5-phase-ii-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Health Ministry releases NFHS-5 Phase II Findings<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article <strong>\u201cDon\u2019t ignore context of NFHS data\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0<b>Indian Express\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0<strong>9th December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The NFHS data evolved much from the Demographic and Health Survey and became a well-structured one. Must read: NFHS-5 and its findings \u2013 Explained, pointwise What are the challenges associated with NFHS? Read here: The nine lives of India\u2019s National Family Health Survey Why the challenges against NFHS are wrong? According to the author,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dont-ignore-context-of-nfhs-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t ignore context of NFHS data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-152162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}