Kerala emerged as the best performing country in terms of overall performance for the fourth consecutive round. in smaller states, Mizoram Emerged as the best performer in overall performance as well as incremental results.
Among Union Territories (UTs), Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir are at the bottom in terms of overall performance, but have emerged as the leading performers in terms of incremental performance. Pollbound UP showed significant improvement in its performance across most of the indicators. Among the larger states, UP recorded the highest incremental change of 5.5 points from the base year (2018-19) to the reference year (2019-20).
Four of the 19 big states reformed their policy ranking
Avast Most of the states and union territories have recorded a change in their overall performance rankings from the base year (2018-19) to the reference year (2019-20). Of the 19 large states, four improved their rankings, while states worsened and 10 retained their base year (2018-19).
Of the eight smaller states, three improved their ranking, four declined, while one retained its base year (2018-19) rank. Compared to the base year (2018-19), four union territories improved their ranks, while three union territories declined in the reference year (2019-20). The report showed that Assam made the maximum improvement, moving up three ranks (from 15 to 12), while Andaman and Nicobar recorded the maximum decline (from 4 to 7).
“The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of the health sector and the need to redouble efforts to strengthen health systems. However, this Round of Health Index (Round IV) 2019-20 does not reflect the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes or any other indicator, as the index’s performance is relative to the base year (2018-19) and the reference year. (2019-20), broadly in the pre-Covid period, it will provide good guidance to the states and UTs on areas of improvement.” Policy Commission member Vinod Paul said in his remarks on the report. In 2017, the government’s think tank NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the World Bank, launched an annual health index to track overall performance and incremental performance across all states and union territories.
The annual health index aims to track progress on health outcomes and performance of health systems, develop healthy competition and encourage cross learning between states and union territories.
The report said it is expected that the exercise will support the efforts of the state and union territories in achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal health coverage (UHC) and other health outcomes related targets. Are included.
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