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Factors Affecting Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) in India- National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 5 Factsheet What It Speaks?

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Názov: Factors Affecting Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) in India- National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 5 Factsheet What It Speaks?
Autori: Nikita Gaur, Tanya Singh, Aanchal Singhal, Abhimanyu Dabas, Sudhanshu Batra, Sidharth Mishra
Zdroj: National Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 14, Iss 02 (2023)
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Medsci Publications, 2023.
Rok vydania: 2023
Predmety: Under Five Mortality Rate, NFHS 4 findings, Under five global, 1. No poverty, child mortality trends India, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270, 10. No inequality, factors affecting child mortality, literacy rate amongst women, 3. Good health
Popis: Introduction: In developing countries various factors lead to Under-5 Mortality and irreversible losses which can be prevented by proper measures take on factors affecting to it. Objective: This study was conducted to analyse the changing trends of Under-5 Mortality in India. The new National Family Health Survey (5th round) which was published recently came up with several new findings, which were both encouraging and disheartening and also one of the major Sustainable Development Goals. Method: A secondary data analysis was conducted of NFHS factsheets to study the U5MR in India. The indicators which had a correlation either positive or negative with the Under-five mortality rate were included. Result- When we look at the result, few states' performance is encouraging because they have shown some of the best declines. Correlation was found between dependant variable that is U5MR which is a dependent variable and several independent variables which concluded that factors like Women literacy, Men literacy, Breastfeeding, Nutritional insufficiencies, Caesarean delivery, ANC visits and IFA consumptions are negatively associated with U5MR. Conclusion: Various steps have been taken in order to improve our healthcare sector since independence, every government had their fair share of contribution, that’s the reason why we are this stage. Now it’s time to increase efforts with targeted interventions to solve this problem and complete our commitment towards the SDGs.
Druh dokumentu: Article
ISSN: 2229-6816
0976-3325
DOI: 10.55489/njcm.140220232492
Prístupová URL adresa: https://doaj.org/article/bcad388e42924a28a21dcf5ca1c3359f
Rights: CC BY SA
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....c1446010b86367d5dafbb12dbe752d0f
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Introduction: In developing countries various factors lead to Under-5 Mortality and irreversible losses which can be prevented by proper measures take on factors affecting to it. Objective: This study was conducted to analyse the changing trends of Under-5 Mortality in India. The new National Family Health Survey (5th round) which was published recently came up with several new findings, which were both encouraging and disheartening and also one of the major Sustainable Development Goals. Method: A secondary data analysis was conducted of NFHS factsheets to study the U5MR in India. The indicators which had a correlation either positive or negative with the Under-five mortality rate were included. Result- When we look at the result, few states' performance is encouraging because they have shown some of the best declines. Correlation was found between dependant variable that is U5MR which is a dependent variable and several independent variables which concluded that factors like Women literacy, Men literacy, Breastfeeding, Nutritional insufficiencies, Caesarean delivery, ANC visits and IFA consumptions are negatively associated with U5MR. Conclusion: Various steps have been taken in order to improve our healthcare sector since independence, every government had their fair share of contribution, that’s the reason why we are this stage. Now it’s time to increase efforts with targeted interventions to solve this problem and complete our commitment towards the SDGs.
ISSN:22296816
09763325
DOI:10.55489/njcm.140220232492