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NFHS data puzzles: Why do we have more toilets but more child stunting?

Decline in GDP of 2020 will adversely affect purchasing power of many households and also five key health outcome measures

Best of BS Opinion: Flashback 2020, puzzles of new data on health outcomes

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Statsguru: India's NFHS highlights some known, and some unknown facts

We look at distribution of 10 large and 10 small states of India across eight health and socioeconomic indicators in four chart that plot one indicator against another

Child nutrition: India may be reversing decades of progress, show govt data

On the positive side, fewer women in 15 of the 22 states and union territories (UTs) for which data were released reported that they experienced marital violence compared to 2015-16

Respiratory infections in children are up: National Family Health Survey

Adult morbidities rose and child malnutrition worsened in four years

PM's call for revision in girls age to marry: Here is what data tells us

Although there is ambiguity in available data, trends suggest that in nearly one-third of marriages in India women are aged less than 21

Odisha improves child and mental health faster; UP, Bihar lag behind

In Odisha, stunting--low height for age and a sign of malnutrition--reduced from 46.5% of children below five years in 2005-06 to 35.3% in 2015-16

The price of controls

Price caps on sanitary products and hand washes are counterproductive

Indians now use birth control pills, condoms more: Family health survey

National Family Health Survey (NFHS), records decline in use of family planning methods to 53.5% in its survey for 2015-16, from 56.3% in its last survey a decade back. Both female and male sterilisation declined to 36% and 0.3% respectively in this period from 37.3% and 1%. The use of IUD (Intrauterine device) and PPIUD (Postpartum Intrauterine Contraceptive Device) also declined to 1.5% from 1.7%.But the use of pills and condom have respectively seen rise respectively to 4.1% and 5.6% from 3.1% and 5.2% in between the two survey periods. The rise in uses of pills comes despite 46.5% users being told about the side effects of modern methods, up from 34.4 % in earlier. Also the overall decline in the use of family planning method to 17.7 % now from 10.1% earlier comes despite rise in health workers talking to female non-users about family planning . The report also talks about rising number of child immunisation. A 62% of children get fully immunized now, up from 43.5% a decade ...