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How Tracking Health Indicators Facilitates More Targeted Policy Interventions

Representational Image How Tracking Health Indicators Facilitates More Targeted Policy Interventions  Delving into the empirical data regarding the primary health indicators can pave the way for better implementation of policies designed to mitigate the prevailing health issues  For any country to achieve its full potential it has to make substantial investments in the health of its population. This is true for India too. For India to thrive economically, we need to be a healthier country. Over the years, India has made substantial investments to drive better health outcomes in adult, maternal, child and neonatal cohorts. While there has been significant progress, there are still state-wise and district wise gaps and disparities in health outcomes. These need to be addressed so that these investments can yield their intended results, and health interventions can reach, and benefit, the most vulnerable populations.

By grouping adolescents with adults, India s surveys are routinely misestimating their health

By grouping adolescents with adults, India’s surveys are routinely misestimating their health One major attempt to correct this has been a one-off. Representational image. | Ahmad Masood/Reuters India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data sources do not gather sufficient data specifically on adolescents, clubbing them instead with data on adults. This holds true across states, rural-urban residence and wealth groups, a June 2020 study says, showing up data gaps with wide-ranging implications for policy and programme design. The key National Family Health Survey does not collect health and nutrition data for school-age children (6-year to 9-year-old) and

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