Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Jharkhand State of India

Jharkhand is one of the eight Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India.  The state comprised of 33 million people and around 17 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 7.9 million with little more than half of them were males (4.2 millions) in 2011.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Illnesses in Jharkhand State has been given sex wise and as per their residence too. These rates are based on one Large Scale Annual Health Survey which was conducted in the year 2010-11 for eight EAG States besides the state of Assam, the major North-Eastern State of India.  Here below the prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Jharkhand State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) males and females.

Prevalence (Per Lakh) of Chronic Diseases in Jharkhand State of India
Chronic Diseases	Jharkhand		Jharkhand (Rural)		Jharkhand (Urban)
	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
Diabetes	455	282	223	127	1092	737
Hypertension	458	515	261	305	1000	1132
Tuberculosis (TB)	335	180	382	180	206	180
Asthma	234	229	213	196	291	326
Arthritis	559	961	573	938	519	1027
Other Chronic Diseases	2128	2373	2137	2312	2104	2553
Any Kind of Chronic Disease	4169	4540	3791	4059	5212	5954

·         1 Million = 10 Lakhs

It can be seen that prevalence of Chronic Illness is much higher in Urban Jharkhand (around 5.2% for males and 6% for females) than in Rural Jharkhand (around 3.8% for males and 4.1% for females). In urban Jharkhand, most prevalent chronic disease is Hypertension followed by Diabetes and the least prevalent chronic disease is TB.  In rural Jharkhand, most prevalent chronic disease is Arthritis and the least prevalent chronic disease is Diabetes.

Both rural and urban females are more chronic ill than males.  In the State, prevalence of arthritis is more in both the rural and urban areas with females.  Asthma is little more prevalent chronic disease in urban areas than in the rural areas. 

Males in both areas are more prone to be Diabetics than females, whereas females are more hypertensive than males in both rural as well as in urban parts of the state. 

Tuberculosis is affecting more males than females in both the areas.

Males are more down with Asthma than females in rural areas, whereas the opposite is in urban areas.