National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) Launched In Arunachal Pradesh

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Itanagar: Along with the rest of the country, the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) has been launched in Arunachal Pradesh with specific goal to provide essential data on health and family welfare needed by state and central governments and other stake holders for policy formation, according to union principal Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) principal secretary Ashish Chandra Verma.

A group of qualified youth - Koj Nado, Tage Hane and Mobia Sera, while visiting house to house here to collect data informed that they are conducting the survey under New Delhi-based IPSOS Research Private Ltd.

However, conducting NFHS-5 in this land-locked Himalayan state would pose steep challenges as people live in far-flung remote areas without any road connectivity. There are glittering examples like Vijoynagar in Changlang district which takes around six to eight days foot march to reach.

The NFHS is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. First survey, conducted in 1992-93, provides state and national information for India on fertility, infant and child mortality, practice of family planning, maternal and child health, reproductive health, nutrition, anaemia, utilization and quality of health and family planning services.

The survey has two specific goals - to provide essential data on health and family welfare needed by the union ministry of health and family welfare and other agencies for policy and programme purposes, and to provide information on important emerging health and family welfare issues.

The ministry has designated Mumbai-based International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), as nodal agency responsible for providing coordination and technical guidance for the survey.

IIPS collaborated with a number of field organizations for survey implementation.

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