Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
National Health Profile
2015
Central Bureau of Health Intelligence
Directorate General of Health Services
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Govt. of India
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi-110108
WHO Collaborating Centre on Family of Ineternational
Classifications ICD-10, ICF & ICHI
CBHI Email : dircbhi@nic.in
http://www.cbhidghs.nic.in/writeread...e/NHP-2015.pdf
Comment: I suspect that the majority of data provided for diseases in this report is a huge undercount of reality. A recent study in Delhi for example indicated that Dengue deaths are under reported by a factor of 42:1. The million death study estimated 92,000 measles deaths(pdf) in children under 5 in India in 2005. Compare that to the 33 deaths counted this year. An estimated 237,000 deaths occurred in children aged under 5 years due to Diarrhoea in India in 2005. Compare that to the all ages total 1,323 deaths reported this year. Malaria deaths could be as high as 200,000 each year (pdf) in India. Compare that to the 535 deaths presented in this report. The report treats these figures as absolute counts and makes no attempt to extrapolate what has been counted to reflect reality. Reporting a 23.27% case fatality rate for H1N1 Influenza is ridiculous and surely requires comment on the extremely poor surveillance and testing regimes in most states. - Ro
There are some differences in the figures released in the NHP and those released by IDSP for 2014.
Malaria
// Cases // deaths
NHP// 1,070,513 // 535
IDSP// 1,102,205 // 561
Chikungunya
NHP 15,445 cases
IDSP 16,049 cases
Dengue
// Cases // Deaths
NHP // 40,425 // 131
IDSP // 40,571 // 137
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Incidence of selected diseases/ conditions in 2014
Disease // Cases // Fatalities
Cholera // 965 // 5
Acute Diarrhoeal disease // 11,673,018 // 1,323
Enteric fever (Typhoid) // 1,707,312 // 429
Acute Respiratory Infection // 34,814,636 // 2,932
Neonatal Tetanus // 572 // 17
Other Tetanus // 5,513 // 163
Diphtheria // 4,071 // 104
Whooping Cough // 61,417 // 1
Measles // 23,348 // 33
Viral Hepatitis // 139,662 // 407
Rabies // 104 // 104
Pneumonia // 709,298 // 2,661
Meningococcal Meningitis // 4,210 // 135
Syphilis // 37,269 // 0
Gonococcal Infection // 74,390 // 0
Chickenpox // 34,447 // 57
Viral Meningitis // 7,812 // 190
Snakebite // 137,658 // 1,122
134,799 suicides were reported in 2013.
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2015
Central Bureau of Health Intelligence
Directorate General of Health Services
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Govt. of India
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi-110108
WHO Collaborating Centre on Family of Ineternational
Classifications ICD-10, ICF & ICHI
CBHI Email : dircbhi@nic.in
http://www.cbhidghs.nic.in/writeread...e/NHP-2015.pdf
Comment: I suspect that the majority of data provided for diseases in this report is a huge undercount of reality. A recent study in Delhi for example indicated that Dengue deaths are under reported by a factor of 42:1. The million death study estimated 92,000 measles deaths(pdf) in children under 5 in India in 2005. Compare that to the 33 deaths counted this year. An estimated 237,000 deaths occurred in children aged under 5 years due to Diarrhoea in India in 2005. Compare that to the all ages total 1,323 deaths reported this year. Malaria deaths could be as high as 200,000 each year (pdf) in India. Compare that to the 535 deaths presented in this report. The report treats these figures as absolute counts and makes no attempt to extrapolate what has been counted to reflect reality. Reporting a 23.27% case fatality rate for H1N1 Influenza is ridiculous and surely requires comment on the extremely poor surveillance and testing regimes in most states. - Ro
There are some differences in the figures released in the NHP and those released by IDSP for 2014.
Malaria
// Cases // deaths
NHP// 1,070,513 // 535
IDSP// 1,102,205 // 561
Chikungunya
NHP 15,445 cases
IDSP 16,049 cases
Dengue
// Cases // Deaths
NHP // 40,425 // 131
IDSP // 40,571 // 137
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Incidence of selected diseases/ conditions in 2014
Disease // Cases // Fatalities
Cholera // 965 // 5
Acute Diarrhoeal disease // 11,673,018 // 1,323
Enteric fever (Typhoid) // 1,707,312 // 429
Acute Respiratory Infection // 34,814,636 // 2,932
Neonatal Tetanus // 572 // 17
Other Tetanus // 5,513 // 163
Diphtheria // 4,071 // 104
Whooping Cough // 61,417 // 1
Measles // 23,348 // 33
Viral Hepatitis // 139,662 // 407
Rabies // 104 // 104
Pneumonia // 709,298 // 2,661
Meningococcal Meningitis // 4,210 // 135
Syphilis // 37,269 // 0
Gonococcal Infection // 74,390 // 0
Chickenpox // 34,447 // 57
Viral Meningitis // 7,812 // 190
Snakebite // 137,658 // 1,122
134,799 suicides were reported in 2013.
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