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India in healthcare hall of shame, ranked worst among peers and neighbours

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
5 MAR, 2013, 11.27AM IST, REMA NAGARAJAN,TNN
India in healthcare hall of shame, ranked worst among peers and neighbours


India and Pakistan figure at the bottom with India often beating Pakistan in the race to the bottom, even if marginally so.
NEW DELHI: Among peers and neighbours India is performing the worst when it comes to the health of its citizens. Whether it is life expectancy, mortality due to all causes, under-five mortality or mortality among men and women between 15 and 49 years, on most counts, India ranks way below China, Brazil and Sri Lanka, just below Bangladesh and Nepal and in some cases even Pakistan.

This was revealed in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The study details the causes of death and disability ? across age groups and genders ? for 187 countries around the world.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...peers-and-neighbours/articleshow/18808188.cms

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India perhaps enjoys the unique distinction of having medical facilities that can cater to medical tourism but when it comes to ensuring the health of its own citizens falls far behind when compared to even neighbouring countries.

A report titled the ?The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence Guiding Policy? by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in the University of Washington puts India at the bottom of the table compared to its neighbouring countries when it comes to death rate and life expectancy.

When it came to age-standardised death rate, per 1 lakh of population, India ranked 155 out of 187 countries in 1990 and while the number of deaths fell by 2010 from 1,447.43 to 1,096.92, it still lagged behind neighbours.
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http://www.firstpost.com/india/worrying-new-report-paints-grim-picture-of-indians-health-648459.html


Link to full report - http://www.healthmetricsandevaluati...en-disease-generating-evidence-guiding-policy
 
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