Diagnoses of Chronic Diseases and Getting Source Wise Regular Treatment in Bihar State of India

Bihar State is one of the major Eastern State of India.  The state comprised of 104 million people and around 54 million (more than half) males as per census 2011.  The urban population was around 11.7 million only in 2011.  Urbanization in Bihar is one of the lowest among all the states in India. Here below the diagnosis of any kind of Chronic Illnesses in Bihar 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 Bihar State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Chronic Diseases in Bihar 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  Regular Treatment of Any Kind of Chronic Diseases Source Wise in Bihar State of India
Chronic Diseases	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Chronic Disease	8971	7313	7961	6586	10025	8126
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Chronic Disease	49.6	62.1	50.6	63.4	48.9	60.8
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Chronic Disease	8.5	11.1	9.2	12.0	7.9	10.3

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Chronic Illness is higher in Rural Bihar (around 8% for males and 10% for females) than in Urban Bihar (around 6.6% for males and 8.1% for females). In both the areas, females are more chronic ill than males.  Seeking of regular treatment is much higher in urban areas than rural.  Males are more for regular treatment than females.  But Government Sources are marginally popular in urban than rural areas. It is very clear that people irrespective of their place of residence are more for treatment of chronic diseases from private sources than from public facilities.