Synopsis of National Health Profile

National health profile is released by Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) every year and was launched in 2005. It covers health status, socioeconomic, demographic and health finance indicators with comprehensive information on human resource and health infrastructure in health field. The data helps understanding goals, strengths and weaknesses. The data will help policy makers to make an evidence based policy and helps in their better implementation.

Government has recently released the 11^th edition of national health profile 2015. The profile is released by J. P. Nadda, union health minister. He stated that e-book of NHP 2015 is a step toward that digital India mission of PM Narendra Modi. National health profile has revealed some data form previous years and predicted their future effects. Some basic information that it gave is

• Every hospital serves about 61,000 people and every bed there is for 1833 people
• India currently has 9.4 lakh allopathic doctors, 1.54 dental doctors7.4 lakh AYUSH doctors
• Nearly 11,000 people are served by every allopathic doctor. Bihar and Maharashtra are worst in this race
• The number of allopathic doctors registered with medical council of India are 16,000 in 2014, which is less then previous year
• In Bihar, every bed is for 8800 people while In Andhra Pradesh , every hospital serves nearly 3 lakh patients
• About 47,000 students annually get admission in 400 medical colleges of India
• unexpectedly, the total health expenditure on health has fallen and India’s GDP share that is contributed to health is less than poorest countries
• undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2012-13 has highest public expenditure on health
• Goa and north eastern states are topper in spending over health per capita while Jharkhand and Bihar are at the bottom.

Cancer data is also released along with it. The cancer data shows following points

• The data shows that by 2020, the increase in cancer patients will be 19% with increase in women count than men. Out of all types, mouth cancer with a hike of 23% and women will face gall bladder cancer prominently.
• Mouth cancer has registered increase of 51% despite of ban of gutka in the country
• 48% increase in prostate cancer, 31% in liver cancer and 22% in lung cancer will be seen
• The rise in cancer problem will increase form current 5.2 lakhs to 6.2 lakhs in 2020.

Report on communicable disease shows these results

• Communicable diseases are decreasing in India.
• 63,000 deaths have been reported due to pulmonary tuberculosis taking it on the top of the communicable disease list
• Malaria claims 500 lives annually in front of 10 lakhs cases. In Odisha, the ratio of malarial in infection is 1/3 in 2014
• Chikungunya has been reduces effectively, but still Maharashtra has nearly half of its all registered cases
• Dengue cases reached to 40,000 cases and out of them 131 cases of death were seen
• Acute diarrheal cases have increase to 1.16 cr. In 2014 but deaths due to it is decreasing.
• Acute encephalitis has shown hike in cases majorly reported in UP, Bihar, west Bengal and Assam.