Surveillance of chronic diseases: challenges and strategies for India
Mishra, Udaya S; Rajan, S Irudaya; Joe, William; Mehdi, Ali | May 2016
Abstract
The need to develop a robust public health surveillance system has increased manifold for India because of the ongoing demographic and epidemiological transition and the rising challenges of chronic diseases. In this regard, the presence of robust chronic disease risk factors, morbidity and mortality surveillance mechanisms can go a long way in prevention and reduction of socioeconomic costs associated with such illnesses.
In the last century, chronic disease surveillance was not a major health concern or policy focus although there were explicit policy efforts for collection of vital statistics related to cancer in India under the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP). However, with growing burden of chronic diseases, in the last decade two important chronic disease risk factor surveillance efforts were initiated in India. These studies are namely, WHO-ICMR Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) risk factor surveillance and NCD risk factor survey under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP).
Citation
Mishra, Udaya S; Rajan, S Irudaya; Joe, William; Mehdi, Ali. 2016. Surveillance of chronic diseases: challenges and strategies for India. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6974.Keywords
Good Governance
Governance Approach
Governance Models
World Health Organization
Quality of Health Care
Public Health Finance
Private Health Care
Healthier Families
Nutrition and Health Care
Health Statistics
Health Objectives
Health Issues
Health Care Cost Control
Political Leadership
Public Administration
Traditional Medicine
Medical Statistics
Medical Services
Medical Costs
Health Costs
Medical Aspects
Child Nutrition
Disease Control
Diseases
Civil government
Common good
Federal government
Delivery of government services
Government missions
Taxation
Public health records
Cost of medical care
Nutrition policy
Health status indicators
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