Database on Health

For long, researchers, policy makers, journalists and activists have been feeling despaired about the non-availability of data on health in India at one place. For such data, they need to refer to numerous government, departmental and other documents. The problem is compounded by the fact that health is a state subject, and hence a lot of data needs to be collated from the documents of the states. In order to encourage research, advocacy and activism in the field of health, CEHAT undertook the task of computerising state-wise time-series data on health indicators, infrastructure, human-power and health financing.

In 1998, CEHAT released this database with its own software programme in the DOS environment for accessing and analysing the data. It provides health data (over 500 variables) for the central government and all the states, from 1951 to the latest available years. The database is now in Windows environment, making it even easier to use it with user friendly features. Simply clicking on a variable of one's interest, tables could be constructed. To view a trend, or to compare the situation across states, one could draw area graphs, line graphs, bar charts or scatter plots for meaningful, attractive and appreciative presentations. What more, one can even compute new variables of one's own interest using the basic ones. One can also save newly generated tables and graphs in 15 different formats, export the tables to Word, Excel, Access print directly. Some of the state-wise time series information provided in the database, includes:


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