Uttar Pradesh with the lowest Overall Reference Year (2019-20) Index Score ranks at the bottom in Overall Performance
New Delhi: NITI Aayog today released the fourth edition of the State Health Index for 2019–20. The report, titled “Healthy States, Progressive India”, ranks states and Union Territories on their year-on-year incremental performance in health outcomes as well as their overall status.
For the fourth consecutive round Kerala emerged as the best performer in terms of Overall Performance.
Uttar Pradesh with the lowest Overall Reference Year (2019-20) Index Score ranked at the bottom (Rank 19) in Overall Performance, however, it ranked at the top in terms of Incremental Performance by registering the highest incremental change from the BaseYear (2018-19) to Reference Year (2019-20).
On the other hand, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were top two performers in terms of Overall Performance with the highest Reference Year (2019-20) Index Scores but ranked twelfth and eight respectively in terms of Incremental Performance.
Telangana performed well both in terms Overall Performance as well as Incremental Performance and secured the third position in both instances.
Among the Smaller States, Mizoram emerged as the best performer in Overall Performance as well as Incremental Performance while among UTs, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir ranked among the bottom UTs in terms of Overall Performance but emerged as the leading performer in terms Incremental Performance.
Among the 19 Larger States, four improved their rankings while five states deteriorated in their rankings from Base Year (2018-19) to Reference Year (2019-20), and ten states retained their Base Year (2018-19) ranks. Three out of the eight Smaller States improved their rankings, four deteriorated while one retained its Base Year (2018-19) rank. Compared to the Base Year (2018-19), four UTs improved their rank while the rank of three UTs deteriorated in the Reference Year (2019-20). Assam made the maximum improvement by moving up 3 ranks (from 15 to 12) while on the other hand Andaman & Nicobar registered the maximum drop in rank (down from 4th to 7th rank).
Among the Larger States, Kerala was at the top with the Index Score of 82.20 and Uttar Pradesh at the bottom with the Index Score of 30.57, in the Reference Year (2019-20). The gap between the best and worst performing Larger States was 56.54 points in Base Year (2018-19) which decreased to 51.63 points in the Reference Year (2019-20). In case of Smaller States, Mizoram was at the top with Index Score of 75.77 and Nagaland at the bottom with Index Score of 27.00. Among the Smaller States, the gap between the best and the worst performer increased from 46.40 points in the Base Year (2018-19) to 48.77 points in Reference Year (2019-20). Among the UTs, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (DH & DD) was at the top with Index Score of 66.19 and Andaman & Nicobar at the bottom with Index Score of 44.74. The gap between the best and worst performer UT decreased from 35.94 in the Base Year (2018-19) to 21.45 in Reference Year (2019-20).
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