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

1
2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)

• KEY FINDINGS ON
• CHILD MORTALITY AND
• CHILD HEALTH

2
Topics

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

3
Infant Mortality Rates
Per 1,000 live births
4
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
5
Steady Decline in Infant Mortality Rates
Per 1,000 live births
6
Infant Mortality Rates by State
Per 1,000 live births
7
Childhood Mortality Rates by Sex
Per 1,000
8
Infant Mortality Rates by Demographic
Characteristics
Per 1,000 live births
9
Infant Mortality Rates by Wealth
Per 1,000 live births
10
Perinatal Mortality Rates by Residence
Per 1,000 pregnancies of 7 or more months
duration
11
Topics

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

12
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

13
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

14
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.

15
Trends in Treatment of Childhood Diarrhoea with
ORS
Percentage of children age 0-3 with diarrhoea in
the past 2 weeks
16
Highest and Lowest Use of ORS
Percentage of children age five with diarrhoea in
the past 2 weeks
State Percent Using ORS
Highest use Meghalaya Tripura Himachal Pradesh Goa Mizoram 65 58 56 51 48

Lowest use Uttar Pradesh Assam Rajasthan Nagaland Jharkhand 13 15 17 17 17
17
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

18
Topics

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

19
Trends in Immunizations by Vaccine
20
Drop-outs Are a Problem for Polio and DPT Vaccine
21
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

22
Full Immunization of Children
Percent of children age 12-23 months
23
Full Immunization of Children
Percent of children age 12-23 months
24
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

25
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

26
Thank You