Prevalence of Acute Illness in Eight EAG and Assam States of India

There are eight Empowered Action Group (EAG) States, namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and three sister states : Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.  It was seen that the EAG States had poor indicators on demographic stabilization at the time of launching the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).  Here below we intend to have some idea of status of Chronic Illnesses in these Group of States individually and also in the State of Assam. One Large Scale Annual Health Survey has been 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 Acute Illness in the various EAG States and in the Assam North-East Major State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons. 

States	Diarrhea/ Dysentery	Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI)	Fever (All Types)	Any Kind of Acute Illness
Chhattisgarh	1107	2877	5193	9746
Madhya Pradesh	1256	1341	5699	9304
Uttar Pradesh	1187	3017	7571	12561
Uttarakhand	675	1983	5225	8448
Odisha	836	964	6689	9550
Rajasthan	647	297	2165	3547
Bihar	2093	3048	7111	12898
Jharkhand	429	805	3856	5537
Assam	1310	3182	4978	11225

 Using population provisional estimates are from Census 2011, the number of people diagnosed for any type of Chronic Illness in EAG states and Assam State can also be estimated.

It can be seen that prevalence of Acute Illness is much higher in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (around 13%) than in any of the EAG Group of States (next being in Assam which is around 11%).   Surprisingly, Jharkhand has a low degree of Acute Illness of 5.5%, less than that in Bihar.  Rajasthan has the least prevalence (around 3.5%) of Acute Illnesses. Chhattisgarh, Odisha and followed by Madhya Pradesh have almost the similar prevalence (around 10%) of Acute Illnesses. 

It can be seen that Fever of all types is troubling most the inhabitants of most of these states and Diarrhea/ Dysentery is the acute illness which is effecting least the residents of  most of these states. 

Diarrhea/ Dysentery is seen to be more effecting the inhabitants of Bihar, followed by Assam and then by Madhya Pradesh.

Prevalence of ARI illness is highest in Assam, followed by Bihar and then UP.  It is observed to be least prevalent in Rajasthan out these nine states. 

Fever is effecting the residents of UP most, followed by those of Bihar and then by those of Odisha.