India ranks below Lanka, Bangladesh on healthcare index

[EastBengalPro]

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India continues to be one of the poor performers ranking at 154, much below China, Sri Lanka and even Bangladesh, in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare, according to the new Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet.

The study points that despite the country's socio-economic development, India has failed to achieve in healthcare goals and the gap between the score and predicted score has widened in the last 25 years.

Though India's score in the healthcare index increased by 14.1 points, from 30.7 in 1990 to 44.8 in 2015, it performed worse than expected in tuberculosis, diabetes, rheumatic heart diseases and chronic kidney disease.

The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, assesses performance for 195 countries from 1990-2015, based on death rates from 32 diseases that could be avoided by effective medical care in the country year-on-year.

India scored an index of 14 in case of neonatal disorders, 26 for tuberculosis, 25 for rheumatic heart diseases and 33 for hypertensive heart diseases.

For diabetes, chronic kidney diseases and congenital heart diseases it scored 38, 20 and 45, respectively.

Highlighting growing inequalities between countries, researchers pointed out that even among countries of similar development levels, there is wide variation in healthcare access and quality. For instance, China is far ahead of India ranking at 82 with a score of 74 on the index. Sri Lanka has scored 73 on the index, whereas Brazil and Bangladesh have score 65 and 52, respectively. However, India ranks above Pakistan, which has scored 43.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-on-healthcare-index/articleshow/58742574.cms

 

[John Reese]

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India continues to be one of the poor performers ranking at 154, much below China, Sri Lanka and even Bangladesh, in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare, according to the new Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet.

The study points that despite the country's socio-economic development, India has failed to achieve in healthcare goals and the gap between the score and predicted score has widened in the last 25 years.

Though India's score in the healthcare index increased by 14.1 points, from 30.7 in 1990 to 44.8 in 2015, it performed worse than expected in tuberculosis, diabetes, rheumatic heart diseases and chronic kidney disease.

The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, assesses performance for 195 countries from 1990-2015, based on death rates from 32 diseases that could be avoided by effective medical care in the country year-on-year.

India scored an index of 14 in case of neonatal disorders, 26 for tuberculosis, 25 for rheumatic heart diseases and 33 for hypertensive heart diseases.

For diabetes, chronic kidney diseases and congenital heart diseases it scored 38, 20 and 45, respectively.

Highlighting growing inequalities between countries, researchers pointed out that even among countries of similar development levels, there is wide variation in healthcare access and quality. For instance, China is far ahead of India ranking at 82 with a score of 74 on the index. Sri Lanka has scored 73 on the index, whereas Brazil and Bangladesh have score 65 and 52, respectively. However, India ranks above Pakistan, which has scored 43.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-on-healthcare-index/articleshow/58742574.cms

Good I Request Bangladeshis And Lankan To not come to India For cheap medical aid indian people need it more

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

Why is that? Why would India rank below Bangladesh and Srilanka in healthcare index?

 

[sbmc27]

In these days of modern time anyone can buy/possess anything legal and even illegal.
There are thousands of Indian ,so does in BD, who are going to Thailand, UK or even in USA for their treatment.
So there is nothing wrong in touring abroad for health services.
Matter is, how do countries shaping their policy or delivering health services for the benefits of common poeple.

Good I Request Bangladeshis And Lankan To not come to India For cheap medical aid indian people need it more

Though I am not an expert in public health issues, i tried to explain the success stories of BD in health index.
( Please read my previous post)
In general , BD is doing excellent in primary and secondary health services, providing logistics, uninterrupted policy support irrespective of political party in govt since mid eighties, health education, women empowerment and education, root level penetrations of health services, success of family planning and spacings, proper sanitation, safe drinking water,

Why is that? Why would India rank below Bangladesh and Srilanka in healthcare index?

and many more....All these together help reduce disease burden and improved quality and access of health services.
You can correlate the OP index with any of the above mentioned categories in which BD is well ahead of most south Asian countries, like growth rate, fertility rate , infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, immunisation coverage, incidence and prevalence of communicable (TB, malaria, filariasis etc) and non communicable ( heart disease, kidney disease), safe drinking water, open defecation rate, gender equality and women education, life expectancy etc.

 

[Shorisrip]

Data per 2014

Sri Lanka life expectancy - 74.8

Bangladesh life expectancy - 71.63

India life expectancy - 68.01

 

[Mage]

India has better higher end medical service like complex treatments and surgeries. But they has some problem at the base. Newborn mortality rate is pretty high in India. Which is comparable to Somalia.

 

[Nilgiri]

Good I Request Bangladeshis And Lankan To not come to India For cheap medical aid indian people need it more

Sri Lanka's institutional capacity is relatively good. BD is near the bottom worldwide*...and is easily the worst in the region regarding large population countries.

All studies are thus reliant on likely corrupt and fraudulent data when it comes to BD....thus best to ignore BD claims (that all further 3rd parties have to use) that members here are desperate to prop up.

BD and Lankans can certainly come to India for medical treatment....regardless of how believable/accurate their own data is....thats really not the point (their money is just as green, and foreigner quotas are designed not to impinge on local capacity access...i.e Indians get first dibs). The issue if for India to improve its access of cheap healthcare capacity to more areas and people while strengthening other initiatives that play a big role in prevention (to reduce the need for cure) such as swach bharat etc.

*Institutional capacity can be checked at the cato freedom index and corruption perception index among others.

But they has some problem at the base. Newborn mortality rate is pretty high in India. Which is comparable to Somalia.

Quote me all of it from here, India, BD (lets assume BBS claim is true for argument sake) and Somalia:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.NMRT

 

[Mage]

Sri Lanka's institutional capacity is relatively good. BD is near the bottom worldwide*...and is easily the worst in the region regarding large population countries.

All studies are thus reliant on likely corrupt and fraudulent data when it comes to BD....thus best to ignore BD claims (that all further 3rd parties have to use) that members here are desperate to prop up.

BD and Lankans can certainly come to India for medical treatment....regardless of how believable/accurate their own data is....thats really not the point (their money is just as green, and foreigner quotas are designed not to impinge on local capacity access...i.e Indians get first dibs). The issue if for India to improve its access of cheap healthcare capacity to more areas and people while strengthening other initiatives that play a big role in prevention (to reduce the need for cure) such as swach bharat etc.

*Institutional capacity can be checked at the cato freedom index and corruption perception index among others.



Quote me all of it from here, India, BD (lets assume BBS claim is true for argument sake) and Somalia:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.NMRT

I saw a headline from an Indian news site(I think) stating that new borns has higher chances to survive in Somalia than India. I could be wrong tho. Gonna give you the article wait a bit. I didn't read the article tho. The headline cought my attention.

 

[kris]

Why is that? Why would India rank below Bangladesh and Srilanka in healthcare index?

Smaller states are easier to handle.
Moreover health is a state subject, with rampant corruption in local govts and no interest to maintain a good health Care is the main reason

 

[Nilgiri]

I saw a headline from an Indian news site(I think) stating that new borns has higher chances to survive in Somalia than India. I could be wrong tho. Gonna give you the article wait a bit. I didn't read the article tho. The headline cought my attention.

Indian news site....stopped reading right there heh.

Smaller states are easier to handle.
Moreover health is a state subject, with rampant corruption in local govts and no interest to maintain a good health Care is the main reason

Please also read my previous post.

 

[Mage]

Indian news site....stopped reading right there heh.

Anyway here you go:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...lia-better-off-than-india/article18511050.ece

 

[MULUBJA]

India's healthcare facilities are world class so I think we need to make sure that it reaches to bottom most part of demographic pyramid. We need to put things right to have a big jump in ranking like we did in Electricity.

 

[Mage]

Quote me all of it from here, India, BD (lets assume BBS claim is true for argument sake) and Somalia:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.NMRT

Even from here you can see mortality rate per 1k birth in India 28. Bangladesh 23. Niger 27.

Sorry if mentioning Niger is off topic tho. What can I do they put Somalia at 40.

 

[attack]

Data per 2014

Sri Lanka life expectancy - 74.8

Bangladesh life expectancy - 71.63

India life expectancy - 68.01

Sri lanka is in a different category as compared to the rest of sub continental losers.
India is a mixed bag with facilities available but not accessible to the poorest. Though govt and ngos do help a lot.The high population does not help.
Bangladesh started from a very poor level in 1971 so their progress is very creditable.
Pakistan is too focussed on security , result of 1971 defeat . With a population same as BD , and much richer base , their decline is shameful.
Nepal is a confused country , but low population should help it get ahead. Dont even know why they are poor. As they are a intelligent and open minded ppl .
Bhutan is doing ok. Beautiful country with no real worries.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Where is the link that shows the rankings?

All I can find is one news site quoting another.