If you study the health history of Europe, States like Kerala, TN and BIMARU states, you can find that they all follow similar patterns, but are in different phases at a moment Take Europe and America, for example, Infectious diseases were the leading cause of mortality till 18th century In 20th century, once improved sanitation and immunization controlled infectious diseases, less people died because of such diseases and more people crossed over to age 40 And these more people who survived the age of 40 without being killed by diphtheria, ADD, Cholera, Malaria, TB got Vascular Diseases like Stroke and Ischemic Heart diseases in 20th century Then the awareness level rose and people started controlling diabetes and hypertension People who would not have survived cholera and heart attack now survived past 60 years And then incidence of cancers arose in late 20th centuries Once cancers are detected earlier, dementia and other diseases of old age will be the challenge -- In States like TN Once infectious diseases were controlled, diabetes and hypertension have become leading health burden So, at present Chennai is the Diabetic capital of India After we control this too, cancer will become the leading cause of death and when some other state is diabetic capital we will be cancer capital -- States like Chattisgarh still are fighting with Malaria, TB and Cholera -- It is all like a video game or Candy Crush You learn to tame level one, but get struck in level 2 You learn to tame level two, but get Struck in level 3 and so on
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:39:25 +0000
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