Table 3. Disease burden categories in major health surveys in India, 1992 to 2016.
| Survey | No. of questionsa,b | No. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maternal and child health | Reproductive health issues other than infectionc | Reproductive tract infectiond | Other adult infections | NCDs | Injury | ||
| NFHS | |||||||
| NFHS-1 | 246 | 123 (50.0) | 118 (48.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.2) | 2 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) |
| NFHS-2 | 294 | 157 (53.4) | 110 (37.4) | 15 (5.1) | 4 (1.4) | 5 (1.7) | 3 (1.0) |
| NFHS-3 | 694 | 254 (36.6) | 313 (45.1) | 71 (10.2) | 10 (1.4) | 22 (3.2) | 24 (3.5) |
| NFHS-4 | 868 | 278 (32.0) | 307 (35.4) | 204 (23.5) | 12 (1.4) | 41 (4.7) | 26 (3.0) |
| DLHS | |||||||
| DLHS-1 | 200 | 105 (52.5) | 57 (28.5) | 32 (16.0) | 6 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| DLHS-2 | 315 | 167 (53.0) | 84 (26.7) | 61 (19.4) | 2 (0.6) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) |
| DLHS-3 | 385 | 165 (42.9) | 153 (39.7) | 57 (14.8) | 9 (2.3) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) |
| DLHS-4 | 339 | 186 (54.9) | 103 (30.4) | 37 (10.9) | 2 (0.6) | 10 (2.9) | 1 (0.3) |
| AHS | |||||||
| AHS baseline | 137 | 70 (51.1) | 52 (38.0) | 2 (1.5) | 2 (1.5) | 10 (7.3) | 1 (0.7) |
| AHS 1st update | 207 | 131 (63.3) | 63 (30.4) | 3 (1.4) | 2 (1.0) | 7 (3.4) | 1 (0.5) |
| AHS 2nd update | 207 | 131 (63.3) | 63 (30.4) | 3 (1.4) | 2 (1.0) | 7 (3.4) | 1 (0.5) |
AIDS: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; AHS: Annual Health Survey; DLHS: District Level Household Survey; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; NCD: noncommunicable disease; NFHS: National Family Health Survey.
a Includes only questions on disease – or condition-specific – and excludes questions on background and sociodemographic characteristics, general health and health care.
b Based on household, separate questionnaires for women and men.
c Includes questions on family life education, family planning, fertility and reproductive preferences, and gender status and relations.
d Includes questions on non-sexually and sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS.