New Delhi, June 25: Maharashtra has emerged as the third Best
ranking state in terms of overall Health performance achieving 63.99 points on
a scale of 100, while Kerala and Andhra Pradesh have ranked first
and third, respectively on health parameters in the Second Edition of ‘Healthy
States Progressive India’ NITI Aayog Report released today.
The second edition of the
Health Index on measuring the overall performance and incremental improvement of
the two years (2016-17 and 2017-18) of the States was released by NITI Aayog at
the hands of the Vice-President, Dr. Rajiv Kumar. CEO of NITI Aayog, Amitabh
Kant, Secretary, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Ms Preeti Sudan and
Health Adviser Alok Kumar were also present on the occasion.
Prior to this, taking Base
Year as 2015-16, the State of Maharashtra had ranked sixth by achieving 61.07
points on health parameters. This time it has made considerable improvement
achieving third position.
The report has been prepared
in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with technical
assistance from the World Bank. In the ‘Healthy State Progressive India’
report, it mentions as a composite Health Index as a composite major of States
and Union territories based on 23 health indicators with major weightage to
outcomes. Based on the composite Health Index Scores range for the Reference
Year 2017-18, the States were grouped in to three categories: Aspirants,
Achievers and Front runners. Aspirants
were the bottom one-third States with an Index Score below 43.74, Achievers
were the middle one-third States with an Index score between 43.74 and 58.88.
Front-runners were the States falling in top one-third score ranging above
58.88 were the best performing States. The highest observed score was 74.01 to
Kerala, followed by 65.13 to Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra ranking third with
63.99 points.
While, the States of
Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh were the top three ranking
states in terms of annual incremental performance in the first ranking of
states on health parameters published in February 2018.
State
has achieved the SDG target for Under-Five Mortality rate
Maharashtra has achieved
progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target related to
Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR), which is 21 deaths per 1000 live births in
reference Year 2017-18, where in the same figure coinciding in the Base Year
(2015-16 ) was 24 IMR per 1000 live births. The other States in U5MR are
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Punjab. The State
is also close to achieving the target of Neonatal Mortality Rate of 12 as per
the 2030 SDG target. In the Base Year (2015-16) it was 15, where in the
reference year (2017-18) it has reduced to 13 per 1000 live births.
Maharashtra
Ranks Third in Overall Performance
In terms of overall
performance of the States on health parameters, the bottom two-third of the
range of Index scores are - Kerala 74.01, Andhra Pradesh 65.13 and Maharashtra
63.99 showing highest scores. Andhra
Pradesh and Maharashtra are only two states that are among the top one-third States
on both overall performance and incremental performance. Among the larger
States, 7 of the top 10 States on
overall performance also continued to improve on the their health index score
from the base year (2015-16) to the
reference year (2017-18), which include Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat,
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir,
Karnataka and Telangana.
Increase
in Institutional Deliveries in the State
There has been significant
improvement in the proportion of institutional deliveries in Maharashtra. In
the Year 2015-16 it was 85.3, where in the reference year 2017-18 has shown
improvement up to 89.8, which is considerably good.
The Health Index is
important instrument in understanding the variations and complexity of the
nations’ performance in health. The Health index based on 23 indicators was
grouped into the domain Outcomes, Governance and Information and Key inputs.
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