PATTERNS OF SELF-REPORTED CHRONIC MORBIDITY AND ITS TREATMENT BEHAVIOUR IN INDIA

Social Science

NHP 2017 targets to reduce premature mortality by one-fourth from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory diseases in India, by 2025. In recent year, patterns of diseases have been changing, that is associated with changing lifestyle and degrading environment conditions. Treatment expenditure of chronic morbidity is also higher than acute illness. In India, there has been an increase in the prevalence of morbidity, seven times in cardiovascular diseases (CVD), four times in disability and nearly three times in infection and non-communicable diseases (NCD) from 1995 to 2014. Chronic morbidity referred to as symptoms of illness persist one month or more among people. Aim of the study is to analyse the spatial pattern of chronic morbidity and its treatment in India. Prevalence of any chronic morbidity has been estimated using data from NSS 71st round. Results show that prevalence of chronic morbidity increase with the ages. The prevalence of any chronic morbidity found higher in southern states of India. In terms of treatment, almost everyone has sought medical advice for chronic morbidity in India.

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