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Morbidity and Outpatient Care for the Elderly in Kerala, South India: Evidence from a National Population based Survey
This paper aims at understanding the elderly-non-elderly difference in morbidity and utilization of outpatient care and how such differences vary across economic classes by using a population based self reported health survey in the context of Kerala—an Indian state which is in the advanced stage of...
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| Materyal Türü: | Printed Book |
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Population Ageing
2012
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| Online Erişim: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005281.pdf |
| Özet: | This paper aims at understanding the elderly-non-elderly difference in
morbidity and utilization of outpatient care and how such differences vary across
economic classes by using a population based self reported health survey in the
context of Kerala—an Indian state which is in the advanced stage of demographic
transition and has the highest share of elderly population in comparison to other
Indian states. It is found that for the elderly chronic non-communicable diseases
account for four out of five of the most frequently reported illnesses. An elderly
belonging to rich or middle classes is more likely to utilize outpatient care in
comparison to a rich non-elderly, however such a pattern is not observed for the poor
elderly. Experience of Kerala suggests that ageing of the population is going to
impose severe challenge to the public health sector in other Indian states which will
be entering into the advanced stage of demographic transition shortly and there is a
need to examine in greater details the willingness and capacity of the private sector to
share this increased burden for health care need |
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| Fiziksel Özellikler: | p.177–192 5 |