Study on Global Ageing and Adult health (SAGE)- India 2006 in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh

Agency : IIPS, Mumbai

The Study on Global Ageing and Adult health (SAGE) India, 2006 was initiated by the World health Organization in six of the seventy countries that participated in the World health survey, 2003. SAGE is a longitudinal, cross-sequential household face-to-face survey. The current survey was the first baseline for SAGE survey programme. The SAGE results intended to inform how health, social, environmental and economic policies, programmes and realities across different countries affected the health status of individuals and populations over a life time and at old age. Institute of health Management Research (IhMR), Jaipur conducted the field work for SAGE, India in the state of Rajasthan.

The overall objectives of SAGE 2006 were; a) to strengthen India's demographic and health database by estimating reliable state-level of population, maternal and child health, hIV/AIDS, and nutrition; b) to facilitate evidence-based decision making in population, health and nutrition; and c) to strengthen the survey research capabilities of Indian institutions and to provide high quality data to policy makers, family welfare and health programme managers, government agencies, NGOs, international agencies, and researchers.

SAGE 2006 provided information on; a) the estimates of the levels of fertility, infant and child mortality, and other family welfare and health indicators by background characteristics at the national and state levels; and b) the measurement trends in family welfare and health indicators over time at the national and state levels.

Sage-2006 also intended to provide information on several new and emerging issues including: a) perinatal mortality, male involvement in family welfare, adolescent reproductive health, high-risk sexual behaviour, family life education, safe injections, tuberculosis, and malaria; b) family welfare and health conditions among slum and non-slum dwellers.


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