Abstract
Anaemia is conjugation with other prevalent diseases, has given rise to a significant health crisis that causes severe physical and cognitive damages. The present work aims to the prevalence of Anaemia among women of reproductive age in India – especially at district level of Maharashtra India. The study is based upon two-time points of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4, 2015–16 & NFHS-5, 2019–20) in India. The result shows the prevalence of anaemia has been increased 6.2% in 2019-20 from 2015 to 16. The changes result shows that few districts have in improvising stage of women health but, the majority of the state districts of Maharashtra highlighting a serious health picture. Out of 36 districts, 16 districts have a higher prevalence of more than 55% of anaemia in Maharashtra. Out of 35 districts, 2 districts in 2015-16 and 16 districts in 2019-20 have higher prevalence (>55%) of aneamia in Maharashtra. Furthermore, a remarkable temporal change has taken place between the periods. As a result, 30 districts of Maharashtra shown increasing change, in which 16 districts marked as >10% changes of women anaemia in 2019-20. Spatial-temporal changes help to identify the vulnerable districts of Maharashtra on the level of anaemia. Therefore a straight policy needs to be implemented targeting specific health issues in the specific regions of Maharashtra.
Highlights
Anaemia is defined as the decrease in the concentration of red blood cells in the body, and the blood cells are not sufficient to meet the person’s physiological requirements.[1]
The result shows the prevalence of anaemia of Maharashtra including all districts (Table 1)
Changes result show that few districts have come-up with good outcomes in terms of women anaemia health
Summary
Anaemia is defined as the decrease in the concentration of red blood cells in the body, and the blood cells are not sufficient to meet the person’s physiological requirements.[1]. Profound studies reported that globally 16.20 billion people were affected by anaemia It has been suggested on an average of 16% maternal mortality and 22% of perinatal deaths occurred in developing countries in last three decades.[1,4,5,6] Further, anaemia in pregnant women substantially contributes to maternal morbidity and mortal ity.[2,7] World Health Organization’s estimate on anaemia in 2011 found the worldwide prevalence of anaemia among pregnant women was found to be 38.2% (32.4 million), and the same among the non-pregnant women was about 29% (496.3 million).[8,9] the widespread presence of anaemia during pregnancy and post-partum was higher in low and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. Such imbalances were mainly caused by the differences in the dietary pattern, deficiencies in intake of micronutrient, and prevalence of infections such as malaria and hookworm in the developing countries.[7]
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