Estimation of Health Expectancy for Prevalence of Chronic Diseases in Silchar Town, Assam

Due to "epidemiological" transition in recent days, the burden of diseases has been shifted from infectious and injuries towards mostly non- communicable diseases, thus it becomes necessary to develop an estimator for the health status of the people that put equal importance to mortality as well as morbidity. Health expectancy is one such estimator. This phenomena lead us to estimate health expectancy for the period 2002–06 for non communicable diseases among the resident of Silchar town.

Sullivan method is used for the of estimation of health expectancy by using life table and disease prevalence rate.

The estimations revealed that in all ages females’ health expectancies for chronic diseases altogether are higher than their male counter- part and these values are increases marginally more than the life expectacies. For diabetes, it is noted that males’ health expectancies in all ages are lower than their female counterparts, where as for hypertension, except age at birth and above 65 years male health expectancies are lower than female counterpart.

The findings of this study will serve as guide lines for health workers and social scientists of this region to adopt different health development programmes for people.