2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)

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2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)

• KEY FINDINGS ON
• CHILD MORTALITY AND
• CHILD HEALTH

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Topics

• Infant and child mortality
• Treatment of childhood diseases
• Child immunizations

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Infant Mortality Rates
Per 1,000 live births
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Early Childhood Mortality Rates
Per 1,000
More than half of deaths to children who die in
the first five years of life occur in the first
month after birth
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Steady Decline in Infant Mortality Rates
Per 1,000 live births
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Infant Mortality Rates by State
Per 1,000 live births
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Childhood Mortality Rates by Sex
Per 1,000
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Infant Mortality Rates by Demographic
Characteristics
Per 1,000 live births
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Infant Mortality Rates by Wealth
Per 1,000 live births
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Perinatal Mortality Rates by Residence
Per 1,000 pregnancies of 7 or more months
duration
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Topics

• Infant and child mortality
• Treatment of childhood diseases
• Child immunizations

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Treatment of Childhood Diseases

• Percentage of children with childhood diseases
• taken to a health facility or provider
• Diarrhoea 60 percent
• Acute respiratory infection (ARI) 69 percent
• Fever 71 percent

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Treatment of Diarrhoea

• 39 of children under age 5 with diarrhoea in the
  two weeks before the survey received some kind of
  oral rehydration therapy
• 26 were treated with a solution prepared from
  oral rehydration salt (ORS) packets and 20
  received gruel
• More than one-quarter did not receive any kind of
  treatment
• 16 received antibiotics, which are not normally
  recommended for treating childhood diarrhoea

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Knowledge of ORS Packets

• Nearly three-quarters of women know about ORS
  packets (up from 43 in NFHS-1 and 62 in
  NFHS-2).
• However, use of ORS is low and virtually
  unchanged since NFHS-2.

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Trends in Treatment of Childhood Diarrhoea with
ORS
Percentage of children age 0-3 with diarrhoea in
the past 2 weeks
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Highest and Lowest Use of ORS
Percentage of children age five with diarrhoea in
the past 2 weeks
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Feeding Practices during Diarrhoea

• Children with diarrhoea should be given more
  liquids to drink than usual, but only 10 of
  children with diarrhoea actually receive more
  liquids and almost 4 in 10 receive less to drink
• Children with diarrhoea should continue to be
  fed, but 45 receive less food than usual or no
  food at all when they have diarrhoea

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Topics

• Infant and child mortality
• Treatment of childhood diseases
• Child immunizations

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Trends in Immunizations by Vaccine
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Drop-outs Are a Problem for Polio and DPT Vaccine
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Full Vaccination

• Only 44 of children age 12-23 months are fully
  vaccinated (only a slight increase in coverage
  from 42 in NFHS-2)
• Between NFHS-2 and NFHS-3, full vaccination
  coverage for children increased in 19 of the 29
  states and dropped in the remaining 10 states

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Full Immunization of Children
Percent of children age 12-23 months
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Full Immunization of Children
Percent of children age 12-23 months
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Summary of Vaccination Coverage

• Almost all children age 12-23 months (95)
  receive at least some of the recommended
  vaccinations
• Vaccination coverage against vaccine-preventable
  diseases has been improving for all recommended
  vaccinations EXCEPT DPT
• Vaccination coverage is highest for BCG and three
  doses of polio vaccine, but nearly one-quarter of
  children have not received these vaccinations

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Summary of Vaccination Coverage

• Drop-outs between the first and third doses of
  DPT and polio vaccine are a substantial problem
• Less than half of children age 12-23 months are
  fully vaccinated
• Vaccination coverage has improved in most states,
  but there has been a notable decrease in
  vaccination coverage in several states

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Thank You