Selected Correlates of Morbidity in Pakistan

Abstract

The study of morbidity from the point of view of demographic analysis refers to the incidence and prevalence of sickness in the population during a certain reference period. Morbidity being the state of condition from which people may return to normal health or, subject to the seriousness of illness, may in some cases die. Though from the point of view of medical discipline any deviation from normal health i.e. a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, is of direct concern for research. The morbidity statistics for which data have become available for a national level statistical or demographic analysis, refers to inability to perform the usual daily routine, inability to take normal food and requiring bed rest for a specific period of time.