Preventive Healthcare: Control & Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases

In the past few years, India's disease profile has shifted drastically from contagious to non-transferable diseases (NCD’s).  The high occurrence of NCD’s in spite of their preventability is highly concerning. They are accountable for about 53% of the inflicting diseases and 60% deaths in India. They could prove fatal if not properly managed as they prevail for long-terms of the patient’s lifetime.

The fatality of NCD’s is also one of the major reasons for the increasing shift towards a preventive, rather than a curative, healthcare mindset. In preventive healthcare measures, non-contagious diseases —such as hypertension, obesity, cardiac disease, and diseases caused due to smoking or alcoholism—are invariably tackled first. NCDs can be prevented more easily than communicable diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia or dengue. Yet, NCDs are accountable for seven out of every 10 deaths across the world.

In one of its reports, WHO stated that appropriate preventive measures undertaken by these countries have drastically reduced the incidence of coronary heart disease and other chronic lifestyle diseases in western countries. With the lifestyle improvisation involving routine vaccinations and checkups, many maladies have been successfully eliminated. Therefore, WHO emphasizes that preventive healthcare measures must get their precedence in the practice of medicine. The estimate says that almost 70% of these diseases are avoidable with timely assessment and intervention.

NCDs also tend to have a better chance of getting successfully managed if detected early, and the chances of detecting them early are more with a preventive mindset when regular health check-ups are done. Even the government has realized the importance of preventive healthcare, although there is a lot more that needs to be done. In the Union Budget of 2011-12, the government of India introduced tax benefits under Section 80D of the Income-tax Act on preventive health check-ups of up to Rs 5,000. It was intended to get the public into a routine of regular health check-ups. Health care benefits providers like the reputed ‘Cognate Health Services Pvt. Ltd is directing it’s efforts and resources to make quality health care more affordable and accessible.

As people are becoming more aware, the focus is shifting from a physician-centric approach to a customer-centric one. Although the shift has already begun, it will gather the needed momentum as the diagnostics service provider becomes the integrated healthcare solution provider. Cognate Health Services Pvt. Ltd. (CHS) is one of India’s leading health care benefits company who has collaborated with the best diagnostics services and medical practitioners in Delhi, enabling people to effectively manage their health.

Cognate Health Services offered to provide access to quality preventive and health solutions with their discounted prepaid health packages. They're highly qualified and extensive medical network provides standardized and transparent concessional rates across hospitals, nursing homes, diagnostic centers, pharmacies, clinics, and home care providers.

Cognate Health Services strive to serve the Indian population with tailor-made health care services, which can be utilized by the young, adults, working professionals and the elderly.