Is Kerala Healthy?

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No, says a recent survey. Dun ask me who, which etc of the so called survey. CM Anthony told the press yesterday that out of 1000 people in Kerala on an average 110 people are unhealthy!!!(national average is 55)

Sound quite paradoxical for a state with very high health and social indices. I thought I would analyse the reasons for such a flaw in calculation. Here are my reasons:

Very high number of senior citizens. Experts call Kerala society a grey society. The bad effects of good health care. There are more number of grey men and women around and I am sure none of them are perfectly healthy. This takes the number of unhealthy people to a very high number.

Hyperchondria- Another result of better healthcare, awareness and more purchasing power. The people give (un)due importance to health as they are aware of various common and uncommon ailments. They know when to go to a doc. And there is no dearth of money to buy medicines (for the poor , govt hosp are there!!!) The case of Malappuram dist, supposed to be one of the most backward districts will tell more. This dist has the maximum density of docs and medical stores. Lotsa dinars and riyals come into this place and the gulf-wives spend on medicines for every silly sickness. It seems docs around the state prefer to work in Malappuram!!!

And the third reason is the most obvious one. Over reporting of such figures. More number of people are ready to participate is surveys compared to other parts of the country and so you get a skewed figure.

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