Diagnoses of Acute Illness and Getting Source Wise Treatment in Uttarakhand State of India

Uttarakhand is one of the major Northern hilly State of India.  The state comprised of over 10 million people and around 5 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was over3 million in 2011 i.e. about 30.6% of the people live in cities and towns in Uttarakhand.  Here below the diagnosis of any kind of AcuteIllnesses in Uttarakhand 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 Uttarakhand State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Acute illness in Uttarakhand State have been given per one lakh (one tenth of a million) persons, males and females besides the percentage of people getting regular treatment from Government and all sources combined.

Having Diagnosed (Per Lakh) and Percent Seeking  Treatment of Any Kind of Acute Illness Source Wise in Uttarakhand State of India
Acute illness	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Acute Illness	8736	7742	8403	7163	9060	8375
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Acute Illness	96.1	97.5	96.3	97.6	95.8	97.4
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Acute Illness	13.7	10.3	12.3	10.1	14.9	10.4

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Acute Illness is higher in Rural Uttarakhand (around 8.4% for males and 9.1% for females) than in Urban Uttarakhand (around 7.2% for males and 8.4% for females). In both the areas, females are more acute ill than males.  Seeking of regular treatment is marginally higher in urban areas than rural.  Both Rural and Urban males are little more for regular treatment.  But Government Sources are not popular in both the Urban and rural areas.  Little over 10% of urban persons utilize the Government facilities, whereas not even 14% of rural persons use Government facilities.  Thus, Government needs to strengthen the health care system in entire Uttarakhand so that public may have to spend less from their pocket on health care.