Burden of NCDs among Nuclear Families

Abstract

In search of economic growth and prosperity, Indian civilization has developed new problem. In the maze of crisscross attack of communicable diseases, it is a matter of concern that non-communicable disease (NCD) is silently infecting the underdeveloped and developed nations leaving its long-term intensified effect on both social and political front, that is, a public health burden. Unhealthy lifestyle, such as urban consumption pattern, is the ‘anti-hero’ in the tragedy of development of health disparity contributing to lifestyle diseases. Nuclear family, being the most vulnerable to have NCDs, needs to be observed for its extended status of threat. With this objective, this article concentrated on the subjective probability of individuals of nuclear family to get affected by lifestyle diseases. The analysed result of primary data collected from 10 Kolkata-based superspeciality hospital’s OPD patients has confirmed the vulnerability of nuclear family of having NCDs. It also indicates the non-competitive probability of attack of NCDs and contagious diseases among nuclear families.