Fourth Health Index released by NITI Aayog

Highlights:

• Recently, the NITI Aayog released its fourth Health Index.
• The fourth round of Index took into account the period 2019-20 as reference year.
• NITI Aayog prepared this report in collaboration with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare as well as with the technical assistance from the World Bank.
• According to NITI Aayog’s health index, Kerala has emerged as the top performer with respect to overall health performance among larger states. 
• On the other hand, Uttar Pradesh has been ranked the last.
• However, Uttar Pradesh topped in terms of incremental performance since it registered the highest incremental change in reference year 2019-20 as compared to the base year 2018-19.
• Tamil Nadu emerged as second while Telangana emerged as the third best performers, on health parameters.
• Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have been ranked among top five.
• Bihar is the second and Madhya Pradesh is the third worst performers, on health parameters.
• In smaller states category, Mizoram became the best performer in overall performance and incremental performance.
• Among Union Territories, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir have been ranked among bottom UTs with respect to overall performance. 
• However, they emerged as leading performer with respect to incremental performance.
• In terms of health performance, Kerala emerged as the best state, for the fourth time.
• Kerala and Tamil Nadu were top two performers with highest reference year (2019-20) index score, in terms of overall performance. 
• However, they have been ranked twelfth and eighth in terms of incremental performance.
• Telangana secured the third place in terms of overall performance as well as incremental performance.
• Rajasthan was the worst performer, in terms of overall performance and incremental performance.
• Among smaller states, Mizoram & Tripura registered strong overall performance.