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

Jharkhand lies in Eastern part 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 i.e. its urbanization is little over 24% and is more than double what we have in Bihar from which this state was carved out in the year 2000.  Here below the diagnosis of any kind 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 Jharkhand State.  Here below incidence of getting diagnosed of Chronic Diseases in Jharkhand 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 Jharkhand State of India
Chronic Diseases	Person		Male		Female
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Diagnosed for any kind of Chronic Disease	3922	5564	3791	5212	4059	5954
Getting Regular Treatment for any kind of Chronic Disease	45.6	69.0	46.0	69.0	45.2	69.0
Getting Regular Treatment from Government Source for any kind of Chronic Disease	14.0	19.0	15.9	20.5	12.3	17.7

It can be seen from above that confirmed prevalence of Chronic Illness is 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 both the areas, females are more chronic ill than males.  Seeking of regular treatment is much higher in urban areas than rural whatever the source of seeking health facilities is.  Rural males are marginally more for regular treatment than rural females.  But Government Sources are not popular in both the Urban and rural areas. Only one-fifth of males utilize the Government facilities in Urban, whereas less than one-fifth of females use Government facilitiesi.e. not even one-fifth of individuals in cities and towns use Government Facilities in order to cure their chronic diseases.  In rural Jharkhand, the use of Government Facilities is only by less that 16% by males and about 12% by females i.e. not more than 14% of individuals use Government Facilities in order to cure their chronic diseases.