Introduction
The Home Based Newborn Care Plus (HBNC+) program of the National Health Mission (NHM) of India is one of the many initiatives aimed to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates (MMR & IMR). A key element of this program is periodic home visits by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) every quarter until the first birthday of an infant where they perform a checklist of healthcare procedures to ensure healthy mothers and babies.
- 20,000 Trained ASHA Worker Entered Infant Data
- 4 Major States covered In CHI
- 800,000 Home Visits Data Entered every Month
The Problem
High Infant Morbidity and Mortality
An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds. With these numbers, Infant deaths in India remained the highest in the world.
The main causes are High Rates of Pneumonia and Diarrhea. Inadequate knowledge of mothers / families on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) and child rearing practices.
The Solution
Monitoring Structured Home visits by ASHAs
HBNC+ is an innovation being tried out under Norway India Partnership Initiative and is being implemented in 13 districts of the country in the four states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan. ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) goes to conduct structured home visitation at 3,6,9 and 12 months of child birth.
All the visits by ASHAs are monitored and tracked in the system. HBNC+ facilitates real time Data Entry. A user can enter data via any Mobile/ Computer device. The data of every household is entered into the system along with the details of new born children. Follow up reminder messages are sent to the parents as well for tracking of Low Birth Weight babies.
- 2.4 mil. Home visit Data captured By the system
- 70% Children Data captured And tracked
- 700k Infant Data entered in CHI
Data Collection
Velocity’s system is used to enter the Data collected by ASHAs on new born children. The Data collected is Tracked using unique code given to each LBW Children. The system of velocity provides an approval process. The Data entered is approved by the supervisors to avoid any discrepancy in the Data.
HBNC+ Roll Out Process
Dashboard
Interactive Dashboard
Get the visitation report through dashboard and filter Data according to Geography and year.
Dive into details
Get District wise reports and filter is on the basis of Date
Monitor Home Visitation
Monitor complete Visitations by getting the complete reports and also export the report in excel.
Filter by Geography
All the reports are available at State, District and Block Level.
Filter by Dates
User can filter out the Home Visitations by Dates.
Upload Children Registered
Upload Children Registered Data under MCTS directly into the system.
Get Line Listing of the children Registered
Get the Line Listing of the Children Registered Data under MCTS directly from the system.
Filter by Geography
Children Report is available at States, Districts and Blocks Level.
Filter by Dates
User can filter out the Children Registered under MCTS by Dates.
Data Visualization
The Data collected by the ASHAs is shown on an interactive Dashboard. The Dashboard includes key monitoring of all the infants. Any user can easily compare reports of various Districts through Dashboard and will not need to look into any paperwork.
Comparative analysis between baseline and findings of periodic assessments: (2013 – 2017)
“ We are helping 1.25 Crore infants by Home Based New Born Care (HBNC) Programme. Because of all the hard work and support put into the programme, we are able to implement it successfully.”
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister
Government of India
