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Article on increasing health ignorance among the students

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In 2013, Indian men could expect to live to 64.2 years, 6.9 years longer than in 1990, according to the Global Burden of Disease study, an initiative led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

 

Indian women could expect to live to 68.5 years, 10.3 years longer than in 1990.

 

Increased longevity is great news. But it would be better if “healthy life expectancy”–a health measure that calculates how many years a person might live in good health–had risen as much for both men and women.

 

Men gained 6.4 years in healthy life expectancy while women gained 8.9 years.

 

A gap between the increase in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy indicates that people will lose some years of their life to disease or injury.

 

Closing this gap entails dispelling the popular notion that ageing means ill health, among other things, because the fastest-growing cause for disability-adjusted life years, lost healthy years for Indians are non-communicable diseases, chronic conditions that the general population associates with ageing, but should not be.

 

Consider the following:

 

About a third of over 6,000 participants of India Heart Watch, a cross-city India cardiovascular study were found to have hypertension, but only 57% knew of their condition.

Barely 48% of participants of a 2014 study in Coimbatore were aware of cardiovascular risk factors.

As many as 21% of 12,608 participants of a 2014 pan-India study were found to have hypertension but only 4.76% of those knew of their condition.

A 2013 survey of cancer awareness in Punjab, based on the reporting of symptoms for early detection, revealed that just 28% of those suffering from questionable symptoms had a confirmed cancer diagnosis.

In Kerala, 86% respondents of a 2011 study had heard of oral cancer but only 62% could pin-point the correct cause.

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