Tag: #health care availability issues

NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY

• Survey carried out on a massive scale to collect information on many parameters.

• Data helps the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) to frame policies and programs to help in the upliftment of the vulnerable groups in India.

• First round conducted in 1992-92.

• NFHS 5 – started in 2018-19.
• International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai – nodal agency for providing coordination and technical guidance for the
survey.

• Funding:
 United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
 MoHFW (Government of India).

NFHS-5

• Only 29% of girl students attended higher secondary school in rural Gujarat.

• 93.6% of girl students attended higher secondary
school in rural Kerala.

• Only 45% of male students attended higher secondary school in rural Gujarat.

• 90.8% of male students attended higher secondary
school in rural Kerala.

• In all States – school attendance dropped as the
education level increased.
 Fall was more pronounced when students reached the higher secondary level.
 Drop in attendance was much lower in rural Kerala, it was the highest in rural Gujarat.

• Bihar – attendance levels were relatively poor right from primary level of education.
 Poor in Meghalaya and Nagaland for the same level. • In 10 States, less than 70% of rural girl students attended higher secondary school.

Report

• Poor levels were observed among rural boys in 9 States.

• Rural Gujarat recorded the highest fall in attendance levels as students progressed from lower to higher education.

• The attendance levels did not drop much in rural Kerala with increase in education levels.

Helath care availability issues

The robust transformation of India’s Public Healthcare System witnessed in the past few decades has not only been progressive but also an example for the developing economies of the world. The healthcare system in India can be divided into two parts viz urban and rural areas and both have a significant differential gap in terms of treatment, not because of uncommon diseases but due to lack of adequate infrastructure and health experts, besides several other challenges in the system. However, the objective in this article is to bring out the challenges which the public and private healthcare systems are currently confronting with.

Fund Allocation & Inadequate Infra

The gap in fund management by the administrations should be understood and be balanced. Not enough funds are allocated for public healthcare in India and the inequality in urban and rural facilities is well known. Due to the lack of modern quality healthcare in the public sector, generally, people prefer private healthcare which is not affordable for most of the rural population due to lower-income and lack of basic insurance policy. Private healthcare in India is a premium and expensive affair for a large section of society. Notably expensive medical device is procured but basic infra is missing in public healthcare system.