Wednesday, December 12, 2012

It is confirmed that Full Immunization is on rising trend in India


Annual Health Survey (2010-11) was conducted in 284 districts in nine states – Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Assam, and these states comprise of 48 percent of India’s population i.e. almost half of India was covered. This part of India was covered as in this part of India the most of the health indicators are believed to be at low ebb and high focus has been rendered in the National Rural Health Mission implemented by the Government.  The data has been collected for three years (2007-09) from the mentioned nine states.

Let us compare the full immunization (%) undertaken for these nine states during 2005-06 (NFHS-3), 2007-08 (DLHS -3) and 2007-09 (AHS, 2010-11).

S.No.
State
Full Immunization (%)
2005-06
Full Immunization (%)
2007-08
Full Immunization (%)
2007-09
1
Assam
31.4
50.7
59.0
2
Bihar
32.8
41.4
64.5
3
Chhattisgarh
48.7
59.3
74.1
4
Jharkhand
34.2
54.0
63.7
5
Odisha
51.8
62.3
55.0
6
Madhya Pradesh
40.3
36.0
54.9
7
Rajasthan
26.5
48.7
70.8
8
Uttarakhand
60.0
62.9
75.4
9
Uttar Pradesh
23.0
30.2
45.3

As could be seen that about 50% of India where indicators of infant and child mortality are worst placed as compared to other parts of India, have improved quite significantly in respect of percentage of full immunization.  Now percentage of full immunization is double for many states say, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.  In respect of Rajasthan it is now over two and a half times as it was in 2005-06.  It is expected that significant increase in full immunization might have been translated into improvements in Child mortality Ratios over the period for these states. Seeing the progress in these nine states in respect of full immunization by adoption of Immunization programme of Indian Government, one may easily say that the progress would also be quite a bit in other states of India too as the Immunization programme is  being implemented throughout India.

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