A geospatial analysis of noncommunicable disease (NCD) burden in Indian agro-climatic and political regions

• Published in: Journal of public health Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 391 - 398
• Main Authors: Shil, Apurba, Puri, Parul, Prakash, Ravi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Alcohols; Disease; Epidemiology; Geographic information systems; Geriatrics; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Heterogeneity; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Older people; Original Article; Policies; Politics; Public Health; Spatial analysis; Spatial heterogeneity; Tobacco; Urban areas; LISA; Regional dependence; Noncommunicable diseases; Geriatric; India

Aim To examine the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Indian agro-climatic and political regions. Subjects and methods Data from two rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS) 68th (2011–12) and 71st (2014) was used to estimate the subnational spatial heterogeneity of NCD burden across 87...