Study of patterns of diseases among patients attending the out-patient department at urban health and training centre of a Medical College in India
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Introduction : We are moving from millennium development goals to sustainable development goals having universal health care as a key. To achieve universal health care we need morbidity patterns and data for planning and programming. Objectives : 1. To assess the morbidity patterns and profile of patients attending the OPD at the urban health and training centre 2. To determine the trends of communicable and non-communicable diseases Methodology: The presented study was record based cross sectional study. The information was collected from the OPD registers of the UHTC. The 12 months data was taken from 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2016. We collected the information of all the patients who visited even for the medicine collection or even for reviewing the disease conditions and treatments. All the patients those visited the UHTC during one year period were included in this study. Results: A total 8120 including new, old and review patients attended the OPD of UHTC during the one year period. Out of total, 2524 males, 5591 females, 1273 under five children, 157 Antenatal women and 68 were elderly respectively. Acute Respiratory Infections followed by Hypertension were most common diseases. Communicable diseases had peak during post rainy season as well as during winter season while non-communicable diseases were more common during winters. Conclusion: To provide universal health care, we should also focus on population other than reproductive and child health group especiallyDownloads
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