Health - Vital Statistics for Kerala

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

Ernakulam

Idukki

Kannur

Kasaragod

Kollam

Kottayam

Kozhikode

Malappuram

Palakkad

Pathanamthitta

Thiruvananthapuram

Thrissur

Wayanad

343

546

194

392

209

704

440

342

327

316

310

411

434

127

8835

15819

4096

5149

2107

7530

9323

9034

5030

4925

5096

12910

12991

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

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