Karnataka 9th in Health Index

Team Udayavani, Feb 10, 2018, 5:44 PM IST

Bengaluru/New Delhi: In the most recent provide details on Health Index discharged on Friday, Karnataka ends up in the ninth position, underneath Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Karnataka found a place among those six states that showed a decrease in their wellbeing execution in 2015-16 from the base year.

In 2014-15 (base year), Karnataka was at the seventh spot among 21 vast states. In any case, it slipped to the ninth spot in 2015-16.

For some states, including Karnataka, the concern is to have a useful district level cardiac care unit, quality accreditation of public health care facilities and administration of labor through an institutional component. All the states need to enhance the sex during childbirth proportion as well.

Among the large states, Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu occupy the top three spots. Andhra Pradesh comes at the eighth position, a marginal improvement from the past positioning, while Maharashtra held the 6th position. In the smaller states category, Mizoram ranked first followed by Manipur.

The list was set up by a group of experts at the NITI Ayog, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the World Bank based on 25 parameters, including neonatal death rate, under-five death rate, full inoculation scope, institutional conveyances, treatment for TB and HIV, and how health services are conveyed at the grassroots level. The index is now being used to allocate a part of the central funding on healthcare to the states

“The file is relied upon to notify states towards additionally accomplishing a quick change of their health systems and population health results,” said NITI Ayog CEO Amitabh Kant.

A portion of the areas where Karnataka doesn’t fare well are treatment success rate of new TB cases and notice of total TB cases.