Health in India
- September 27, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Economy
Context:
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the report of a survey titled ‘Health in India’, whose main objective was to gather basic quantitative information on India’s health sector.
Concept:
- The report is based on information collected through NSS Schedule 25.0 (Household Social Consumption: Health) spread over the entire Indian Union.
- The survey defines ailment as any deviation from a person’s state of physical and mental well-being. The ‘Proportion of Persons who Responded as Ailing’, or PPRA, in a 15-day period when they were approached by the surveyors, were registered as those suffering from ailments.
- The survey shows that women remain more susceptible to suffering from ailments than men. In rural India 6.1 per cent of males said that they were suffering from ailments, while 7.6 per cent of rural women said the same. While 8.2 per cent of urban males said that they were sick, 10 per cent urban females said the same.
- Around 7.5 percent of Indians reported that they were suffering from ailments, as per the survey. The difference in people suffering from ailments in rural and urban India was stark. While in rural India only 6.8 per cent said that they were suffering from an ailment, this number in urban India was 9.1 per cent.