Author/Authors :
Kumar، Dinesh نويسنده Department of Community Medicine, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh , , Ahmed Quasmi، Nafis نويسنده Department of Community Medicine, Central Government Health Scheme, Bangalore, Karnataka , , Chandel، Jameer Khan نويسنده Department of Community Medicine, Ayurvedic Health Centre, Chalehali, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh , , Bhardwaj، Ashok Kumar نويسنده Department of Community Medicine, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh , , Raina، Sunil Kumar نويسنده Department of Community Medicine, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh , , Sharma، Y. K. نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Since a very long time, a significant number of patients have been
seeking treatment at Complementary and Alternative Medicine
health facilities, but the disease burden at these facilities has never
been assessed and documented. Present cross?sectional study was
carried out at Ayurvedic tertiary care hospital to document and to
assess the rationale of disease reporting at Ayurvedic institutions
of the northern state of India from January 2011 to October 2011.
Almost half of the patients’ morbidities were not classified at all into
any of the disease categories. The common reported morbidities at
study hospital were: Respiratory (10.5%), neuromuscular (9.5%),
digestive (9.2%) and circulatory (9.1%) disorders. As the majority
of diseases were unclassified, so mainstreaming of the effective
disease surveillance would be required to understand the morbidity
pattern and successful treatment practices at health facilities.
