Essential health information available for India in the public domain on the internet

Raban, Magdalena Z; Dandona, Rakhi; Dandona, Lalit

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-208

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Characteristics of essential sources of health information in India, 2008.

From: Essential health information available for India in the public domain on the internet

Essential source [10]	Year started	Periodicity; last year conducted	Category of information	Lowest geographical level	Availability of information in the public domain*
1. Census [19]	1872	10 years; 2001	◦ Morbidity & health status	City/town/village	+
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Health infrastructure
2. Birth and death registration
a) National birth and death registration system [20–22]	1969	Ongoing	◦ Mortality & causes of death	State	+
			◦ Morbidity & health status
b) Sample registration system [6, 23]	1969	Ongoing	◦ Mortality & causes of death	State	+
			◦ Morbidity & health status
3. Surveillance and response system
a) HIV Sentinel Surveillance [8, 24]	1998	Annual; 2007	◦ Morbidity & health status	District†	+
b) National Crime Records Bureau "Accidental deaths and suicides in India" [25]	1967	Annual; 2007	◦ Mortality & causes of death	State	+
c) National Cancer Registry Programme [26]	1981	Variable; 2003	◦ Mortality & causes of death	City‡	+
			◦ Morbidity & health status
			◦ Service provision
d) Integrated Disease Surveillance Project [9]	2003	Ongoing	◦ Mortality & causes of death	Not known	0
			◦ Morbidity & health status
e) National Polio Surveillance Project [27]	1997	Ongoing	◦ Morbidity & health status	State	+++
f) National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme [28]	Not available	Ongoing	◦ Mortality & causes of death	State	+
			◦ Morbidity & health status
4. Household surveys
a) Reproductive and Child Health District Level Household Surveys [29]	1998	4–5 years; 2007/8	◦ Morbidity & health status	District§	+++§
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Service provision
b) National Family Health Surveys [30]	1990	6–7 years; 2005/6	◦ Mortality	State	+++
			◦ Morbidity & health status
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Service provision
c) National Sample Survey on household consumer expenditure [31]	1972	5 years for large samples (surveys on small samples since 1986/7); 2005/6	◦ Health financing	State	++
d) National Sample Survey on nutritional intake in India [32]	1972	5–6 years; 2004/5	◦ Morbidity & health status	State	++
			◦ Risk factors
e) National Sample Survey on morbidity, health care and the condition of the aged [33]	1973	Variable (conducted twice); 2004	◦ Morbidity & health status	State	++
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Service provision
f) World Health Survey [34]	2003	Once; 2003	◦ Mortality & causes of death	State\|\|	+++
			◦ Morbidity & health status
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Service provision
			◦ Human resources
g) National Sample Survey on condition of urban slums [35]	1976	Variable (conducted thrice); 2002	◦ Risk factors	State	++
			◦ Health infrastructure
h) National Sample Survey on disabled persons in India [36]	1981	10–11 years; 2002	◦ Morbidity & health status	State	++
i) National Sample Survey report on village facilities [37]	1950	Variable; 2002	◦ Risk factors	State	++
			◦ Health infrastructure
j) UNICEF Multiple Indicator Survey [38]	2000	Once; 2000	◦ Morbidity & health status	State	+
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Service provision
k) National Sample Survey on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene [39]	1988	Variable (conducted thrice); 1998	◦ Risk factors	State	++
l) World Bank Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar [40]	1997/8	Once; 1997/8	◦ Morbidity & health status	State¶	+
			◦ Risk factors
			◦ Service provision
m) National Sample Survey on maternal and child health care in India [41]	1995/6	Once; 1995/6**	◦ Risk factors	State	++
			◦ Service provision
n) National Sample Survey on consumption of tobacco in India, 1993–94 [42]	1993/4	Once; 1993/4**	◦ Risk factors	State	++
5. Service generated data
a) Family Welfare Statistics in India [43]	1974	Variable; 2006	◦ Service provision	State	+
b) Performance of Cataract Surgery under National Programme for Control of Blindness [44]	Not available	Ongoing	◦ Service provision	State	+
c) Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme [45]	1997	Ongoing	◦ Service provision	District††	+++
			◦ Health infrastructure
			◦ Human resources
6. Mapping of health facilities
a) Bulletin on Rural Health Statistics [46]	Not available	Annual; 2007	◦ Health infrastructure	State; some district	+
			◦ Human resources
b) National Health Profile [47]	1953	Annual; 2007	◦ Morbidity & health status	State	+++¶¶
			◦ Health infrastructure
			◦ Human resources
c) WHO "Antiretroviral Therapy Service Map" [48]	2006	Once; 2006	◦ Service provision	State	+
d) Reproductive and Child Health Facility Survey [49]	1998	5 years; 2003	◦ Service provision	State	+++‡‡
			◦ Health infrastructure
			◦ Human resources
e) Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh & National Informatics Centre health maps [50]	2007§§	Once; 2001	◦ Health infrastructure	District	+++¶¶
7. Behavioural surveillance
a) NACO Behavioural Surveillance Surveys [51]	2001	5 years; 2006	◦ Risk factors	State	+
			◦ Service provision
b) National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau time trend surveys [52]	1972	8–13 years; 1996/7	◦ Risk factors	State\|\|\|\|	+
c) Integrated Disease Surveillance Project [9]	2003	Ongoing	◦ Risk factors	Not known	0
d) Sample Registration System [23, 53]	2001	Ongoing	◦ Risk factors	State	+***
8. National Health Accounts [54]	2001/2	3 years; 2004/5†††	◦ Health financing	State	+++
9. Financial and management information
a) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare "Annual Report" [55]	Not available	Annual; 2007/8	◦ Health infrastructure	National	+++¶¶
			◦ Human resources
			◦ Health financing
b) Planning Commission "Five Year Plan" [56]	1950	5 years; 2007	◦ Health infrastructure	National	+++¶¶
			◦ Human resources
			◦ Health financing
c) National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health [57]	2005	Once; 2005	◦ Health infrastructure	State	+++¶¶
			◦ Human resources
			◦ Health financing
10. Modelling, estimates and projections
a) National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health [57]	2004	Once; 2005	◦ Mortality & causes of death	National;	+++¶¶
			◦ Morbidity & health status	some state
			◦ Health infrastructure
			◦ Human resources
			◦ Health financing
b) Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors Study [16]	1990	Variable; 2002‡‡‡	◦ Mortality & causes of death	National	+++
			◦ Morbidity & health status
			◦ Risk factors

*Availability of information: +++ means all types of information produced freely available (reports, details, microdata and metadata as applicable), ++ all types available but with restrictions, + means some available (e.g. report or spreadsheet, but no microdata), and 0 means none available.
†At time of writing this paper, district level estimates available for 2006 for HIV prevalence among antenatal clinic attendees and patients with sexually transmitted diseases; estimates of state level population HIV prevalence available for 2007.
‡Only for registry locations; population-based registries at Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Barshi, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Imphal, Kollam, Kolkata, Mizoram, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Sikkim, Silchar, Thiruvananthapuram; hospital-based registries at Bangalore, Chennia, Mumbai, Dibrugarh.
§At the time of writing this paper, reports, metadata and microdata available for district level for 2002–2004 survey; state level reports available for 2007/8 survey.
||Only for the states of Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; national pooled estimates also available.
¶Only for the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
**Part of a regular household consumption survey, but these are the only reports on maternal and child health, and tobacco consumption available.
†† District level only for service provision; infrastructure and human resources information available for state level.
‡‡At the time of writing this paper, reports, metadata and microdata available for the 2003 survey.
§§Maps produced in 2007 using 2001 census data.
|||| Only for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
¶¶Only reports available; these are not primary data collection sources, so microdata not expected.
***Some results have been released in the form of a journal publication [53].
†††National Health Accounts for 2004/5 are being computed but the results not available at the time of writing this paper.
‡‡‡Regional estimates for 2004 were made available in 2008.

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