21st Century India's Health Story in Graphs: Using NFHS-5 Data to Verify Worrying Child Mortality Trends from SRS
edia coverage of the latest National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) results from 2019 have broadly focused on the under-performance in nutrition, at the cost of examining disaggregated trends in child mortality. This article tries to examine new study findings of a stagnation in child mortality rates in India’s urban areas based on the Sample Registration System (SRS) data by Jean Dreze and colleagues in light of new NFHS-5 data from 17 states. The 2020 study had explored data from 20 bigger states and found evidence of a slowdown, pauses, and reversals in infant mortality in large parts o...
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