- NITI Aayog on June 25, 2019 released the Second Edition of “Healthy States, Progressive India” .
- The report ranks states and Union territories innovatively on their year-on-year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance.
- The Round II report focuses on measuring and highlighting the overall performance and incremental improvement over a two year period (2016-17 and 2017-18) in the States and UTs.
- Among the Larger States, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra ranked on top in terms of overall performance.
- Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand are the top three ranking States in terms of annual incremental performance.
- Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand showed the maximum gains in improvement of health outcomes from base to reference year in indicators such as Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR), Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR), Proportion Low Birth Weight among New-borns, Proportion of districts with functional Cardiac Care Units (CCUs), Proportion of ANCs registered within first trimester, Proportion of CHCs/PHCs with Quality Accreditation Certificates, full immunization coverage, institutional deliveries, Proportion of Specialist positions vacant at District Hospitals and Proportion of total staff (regular and contractual) with e-pay slip generated in the IT enabled Human Resources Management Information System.
- Among Smaller States, Mizoram ranked first followed by Manipur on overall performance, while Tripura followed by Manipur were the top ranked States in terms of annual incremental performance.
- Among UTs, Chandigarh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli were ranked on top in terms of overall performance (Chandigarh-1 and Dadra and Nagar Haveli-2) as well as annual incremental performance (Dadra and Nagar Haveli-1 and Chandigarh-2).
About the Ranking
- The report is an annual systematic performance tool to measure the performance of the States and UTs.
- It ranks states and union territories on their year on year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance with respect to each other.
- The ranking is categorized as Larger States, Smaller States and Union Territories (UTs), to ensure comparison among similar entities.
- The Health Index is a weighted composite Index based on 23 indicators grouped into the domains of Health Outcomes, Governance and Information, and Key Inputs/Processes.
- Each domain has been assigned weights based on its importance and has been equally distributed among indicators.
