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Abstract
Mapping of health and diseases in India - A cartographic approach
Dr. R. K. Dhabai, A. K. Malik
National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, Kolkata
Abstract
The concept of health care and treatment of diseases have undergone a sea change over the past decade. With shifts in social set up and rise in the number of nuclear families, the earlier notion of the doctor next door has also changed. People often are in a fix while looking for treatment of a particular disease. The nature of treatment and facilities available thereupon in India is required to be depicted to facilitate significantly large proportion of population suffering from either disease. We have to make the people of India particularly those who live in the rural areas aware about the status of health related issues, so that they make use of such things in the society. At this point, the role of the National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, a pioneer thematic mapping organisation of the country, functioning under the aegis of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi can not be overlooked. The Organization felt it necessary to take up the challenge to prepare a Health and Disease Atlas of India and completed it within the scheduled target.
The atlas is divided into three parts namely-(i) environmental setting (ii) distribution of diseases and (iii) health services.
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