Prevalence of Diseases and Deaths and the Major Obstacles for Healthcare Seekers in Mizoram Lalmalsawmzauva K.C.1, Lalthanpuii Rosie2 1Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Resource Management, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram 2Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio Imaging Technology, Regional Institute of Paramedical Nursing Sciences, Aizawl, Mizoram Online published on 23 July, 2019. Abstract This paper is an attempt to study the prevalence of diseases, the prevalence of death and developmental factors obstructing healthcare seekers in Mizoram. Present research finds out that sickness is extremely common in Mizoram. Among the eight districts, it is most prevalent in Kolasib and Serchhip districts with more than 98% reported of having sickness in their lifetime. On the other hand sickness of any kind is the least prevalent in Aizawl and Saiha districts with a little over 73% and 80% respectively. It is interesting to find out that among the top five common diseases, only Cancer and Malaria are persistently dominant among the top causes of death in Mizoram. Research showed that poverty became the main obstacles (58.1%) of healthcare seekers, followed by problems of location of healthcare facilities as it is too far (30.4%), ignorance (27.2%), delay treatment (17.9%) and no response (3.8%). The present research clearly shows that seeking health care is quite common in Aizawl district (91.7%) compared to other districts of Mizoram and far better than the state average of 65.9% while Mamit and Serchhip records the least percentage of family members that went for health check-up in time of illness with only 51.5% and 51.7% respectively. Top Keywords Diseases, prevalence, obstacles, healthcare-seekers, death. Top |