CHILD HEALTH IN INDIA: A STUDY OF RAJASHTHAN.

The present paper is to attempt to analyze the spatial variation in child health with following indicators are infant mortality rate, under five age group mortality, neo-natal mortality, post natal mortality, morbidity of diarrhoea, fever and acute respiratory infection among children. These indicators were chosen because many of studies have proved that they are more suitable indicators to measure the child health. The study area is Rajasthan which lies in BIMARU state, have less developed and poor health, education, economy and infrastructure. The district is selected as the unit of study. The data used in present study is taken from (AHS) 2012-13 annual health surveys and censes of India 2011. The survey provides district-level estimates on a set of infant mortality, under 5 mortality, neo-natal mortality, post natal mortality, acute respiratory infection, diarrhea and fever among children. We use Arc GIS 9.3 Software to produce map of child health in Rajasthan. The Eastern, South-western Rajasthan shows high rate, and Southern Rajasthan shows moderate and Northern, Central and Western Rajasthan shows lowest rate of IMR, U5MR and NNMR.