The National Family Health Survey 2016 for Nagaland

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When compared to other Northeastern states, Nagaland fares very badly in terms of primary healthcare services utilisation. The National Family Health Survey 2016 highlights the dismal state of maternal and child healthcare. It has the lowest proportion of pregnant women (25%) who have received antenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy. In fact, on this indicator, even Bihar (35%) exceeds Nagaland by 10 percentage points.

 

Read full report in our policy note

 

http://rchiips.org/NFHS/NFHS-4Reports/Nagaland.pdf

In : Policy Note, THE THINK-TANK

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