Uttarakhand in a state of health: Annual survey

The hill state also has the lowest MMR,the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births,of 162 among the nine states while Assam has the highest of 347. Uttarakhands also scores the highest on the key health indicator of sex ratio at birth 8211; 866. Chhattisgarh,on the other hand,has an SRB of 951,the worst among the states surveyed.

Same is the case with neo-natal mortality rate: Uttarakhands Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh have the lowest NNMR of 12 while Balangir in Orissa fares the worst at 72. Uttarakhands Bageshwar has the lowest crude birth rate of 14.5 while Shraswati in UP has the highest of 40.2. The crude birth rate,the survey found,has declined in 261 of the districts surveyed and remained the same in 10.

The survey,fieldwork for which was done between November 2011 and April 2012,covered a representative sample of 20.61 million people in 4.28 million households in 20,694 Primary Sampling Units.