Data pertaining to health care in India, evidence shows, is significantly compromised in terms of its quality, its periodicity and coverage. In addition, “there is a visible discrepancy between the type of information available and what is required by health planners, medical scientists and researchers,” says a recent paper by the Health Team of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. It has been well recognised and acknowledged by the government officials that data collection system in India needs to be completely revamped as different data sources lead to different conclusions. So if you want to know the proportion of births that were delivered by caesarian section in a private health facility of Andhra Pradesh, National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 will say it is 57 per cent but the Health Information System of the National Rural Health Mission 2015-16 pegs it at around 42 per cent.

 

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