Health Monitor - NFHS Report

• 21% Women & 25% men above 15 have hypertension.
• 12% Women & 14% men above 15 have random blood glucose levels above normal           (140mb/dl)
• Crude Death Rate: 9 per 1000 population annually.
• 83% house holds have access to toilet facility (96% in urban and 76% in rural)
• 87% in 6 - 17 age bracket attend school
• 70% aged 15 -17 attend school.
• 38% men and 9% women above 15 use tobacco products.
• 1% women and 19% men drink alcohol.
• 36% houses have at least one mosquito net.
• 70.5% women and only 24.5% men collect drinking water.
• 32% married women and 98% married men are employed.
• 83% employed women earn cash, 15% not paid at all.
• 71% married women participate in making decisions on their health care, major household purchases,and visits to their own family or relatives alone or jointly with husband.
• 30% women aged 18 - 49 have experienced physical violence since  15.
• 6% women have experienced sexual violence.
• one - Fourth married women (18-49) have experienced spousal physical or sexual violence, report physical injuries; only 14% have sought help.
• No. of women having a bank or savings account that they use grew from 53% to 79% in 4 years.
• 77% children aged 12 - 23 months were fully immunized in NFHS -5 compared to 62% in NFHS - 4