National Family Health Survey-4 was conducted across 26 states and Union Territories.
What are the findings of the survey?
This is the first time the government has conducted a survey to find out the incidence of diabetes and hypertension.
More than a fifth of India’s 125-crore population suffers from diabetes and hypertension.
The overall incidence of diabetes was20.3 % and that of hypertension 22.2 %.
States with a higher incidence of hypertension include Punjab (35%), Sikkim (44.8%) and Maharashtra (26%).
States with the incidence of diabetes to be higher than the national average include Goa (33.7%), West Bengal (28.2 %), Assam (34.6 %) and Odisha (27.2 %).
The deliveries by caesarean section are disproportionately high in private hospitals as compared to government ones making it way above the WHO’s expected rate in any population i.e 25 %.
The percentage of caesarean sections is the highest in private hospitals of urban Tripura — 87.1 %.
Urban private hospitals of Telangana are a close second with 74.8 % caesarean deliveries, and West Bengal comes third with 74.7 %.
The sex ratio improved from 914 to 919 at the national level over the last decade, with the top three states being Kerala (1,047), Meghalaya (1,009) and Chhattisgarh (977).
In Haryana the sex ratio went down from 897 in NFHS-3 to 876.
