HEALTH IN INDIA

Findings of the report:

• Around 7.5 % of Indians reported that they were suffering from ailments.
  
  
• While in rural India only 6.8 % said that they were suffering from an ailment, this number in urban India was 9.1 %.
  
  
• Religion based classification:
  • The Zoroastrian community remains the most susceptible to ailments. Results from the National Sample Survey (NSS)’s 75th Round released in July show that 31.1 % of Zoroastrians reported that they were suffering from an ailment at the time the survey was conducted.
    
    
  • This number for other communities is: Jains, 11.2 %; Sikhs 11 %; Christians 10.5 %; Muslims 8.1 %; Buddhists 8 %; and Hindus 7.2 %.
    
    
  
  
  
• Sex based classification:
  • The survey shows that women remain more susceptible to suffering from ailments than men.
    
    
  • In rural India 6.1 % of males said that they were suffering from ailments, while 7.6 % of rural women said the same.
    
    
  • While 8.2 % of urban males said that they were sick, 10 % urban females said the same.