PREVALENCE AND IMPACT OF CHRONIC DISEASES ON COMMUNITY

Lakshmi Usha Ayalasomayajula*, Jagadeesh Panda, B. Malleswara Rao, K. Syamala, R. Dharani, Sai Akshaya Pilla, Y. Deepika

In early 70’s and 80’s, chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes were reported in the age group above 60 years. But these days they became very common in late 30’s and early 40’s. This is all due to a number of reasons such as change in lifestyle, eating habits, lack of physical exercise, etc. Due to this the people has to spare time for exercise but in olden days the exercise was a part of daily routine. Our study includes a survey on prevalence and impact of chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. The main aim of this survey is to pick people in the age 35 of to 50 years suffering from chronic diseases from a particular area and find of the effect of diseases.[1] This survey is conducted in the CHARKAM village, which is located in ANAKAPALLI district. This survey aims to gather information about the people in Charkam village suffering from diabetes, hypertension and both. It also aims to know about the disease condition, its severity, therapy and dose of the people participating in survey.[2] It also aims to identify the prevalent diseases and their effects on the people, ensuring the preventive measures taken by the villagers to cure the chronic diseases.[1,2] This survey is about the useage of drugs and treatment taken by the people with respect to the severity of the diseases. With this survey we learn that the people are well aware about the diseases, their complications, difference between self medication and prescribed medication. The people in this village visit doctors frequently based on the severity of the disease, and use the prescribed medicines from a registered practitioner.[2] In olden days, traditional medicine was practiced more precisely, but now a days useage of allopathy medicine had increased leaving evidence to develop treatment and diagnostic tools to cure a disease. The people in this village have knowledge to use allopathic medicine. They were aware about the difference between the usage traditional and allopathic medicine.[2,3]