While Kerala made remarkable achievement with respect to the mortality and fertility, the level of morbidity is reported to be high and this started debate on the " low mortality and high morbidity syndrome" in Kerala. This debate concentrated around whether the high morbidity in Kerala was real perceived, given the high literacy, better health care infrastructure and higher utilisation of health care services. Though Kerala has achieved revolutionary progress in the health care development, recently the state is under octopus hold of both communicable and chronic diseases, with arrival of...