Health Outcome Indicators

The Eleventh Plan document states that though considerable achievements have been made to improve health standards, problems exist. Malnutrition affects a large population of children.  An unacceptable high proportion of the population continues to suffer and die from new diseases that are emerging; apart from continuing and new threats posed by the existing ones.  Pregnancy and child birth related complications also contribute to the suffering and mortality. The details of select Health Indicators are as under :

Health parameters	Year 2005 #	Year 2011$
Crude Birth Rate (per 1000)	23.8	21.8
Crude Death Rate  (per 1000)	7.6	7.1
Infant Mortality Rate  (IMR)  (per 1000 live births)	58	44

Source:   #11^th Five Year Plan,   

$ Sample Registration System, 2011

(a)    The performance of  health indicators of Jharkhand during 10^th  and 11^th Plan  period are as under :

Health parameters	Year 2006 #	Year 2011$
Crude Birth Rate (per 1000)	26.2	25.0
Crude Death Rate (per 1000)	7.5	6.9
IMR (per 1000 live births)	49	39

Source :   # Sample Registration  System 2006,

                 $ Sample Registration System 2011