Performance and status of child healthcare indicators in Haryana: A study of NFHS rounds

This paper aims to analyse the status of child healthcare, child mortality, trends in the nutritional level and vaccination coverage among children in Haryana. Child healthcare remains one of the important parts of healthcare policy worldwide. The status of child mortality, level of nutrition among children and vaccination are considered crucial indicators of health outcomes. Most healthcare schemes and policies are prepared while taking child and maternal healthcare in their pinpoint agenda. Further, the paper combined the child mortality rate, trends in the nutritional level and vaccination coverage indicators to analyse the status of child health care in Haryana. The paper uses data from the National Family Household Survey (NFHS) rounds. The NFHS’s various rounds of data have been used to capture trends in the status of child healthcare in the state of Haryana. Descriptive statistics has been used to calculate the trends and status of child healthcare.