Health
Health
Health status is generally measured in terms of mortality indicators like Death rate, Infant mortality rate and expectation of life at birth among others. Mortality indicators shows that health status of Kerala is far advanced and higher than the all India average and is even comparable with developed countries. This outstanding progress of health status is achieved through widespread growth of the three systems of medicine in public, private, co-operative sectors combined with people's health awareness. The basic health indicators of Kerala and India are given in Table below. Though Kerala has attained better health care indicators, the people are now facing the problem of high morbidity both from communicable and non- communicable diseases.
Kerala is having the highest number of health care institutions as per the 1991 census. About 26% of total health care institutions in India are located in Kerala.
Table: District wise details of health care institution, beds and waste generation
| District |
No of Health Care Institutions |
Number
of beds |
Alappuzha
|
343 |
8835 |
Ernakulam
|
546 |
15819 |
| Idukki |
194 |
4096 |
| Kannur |
392 |
5149 |
| Kasaragod |
209 |
2107 |
| Kollam |
704 |
7530 |
| Kottayam |
440 |
9323 |
| Kozhikode |
342 |
9034 |
| Malappuram |
327 |
5030 |
| Palakkad |
316 |
4925 |
| Pathanamthitta |
310 |
5096 |
| Thiruvananthapuram |
411 |
12910 |
| Thrissur |
434 |
12991 |
| Wayanad |
127 |
2307 |
| Total |
5095 |
105152 |
The distribution of health care institutions based on bed strength is as follows
The district wise distribution of health care institutions in the state is given below
