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~llage The details of preparing the questlonnarre and the composlt~on of people
~ntew~ewed have already been described !n the chapter on health (Chapter 5 3) The
same lndlvlduals were lnterv~ewed on soc~al Issues uslng a slngle questlonnalre
p) Other ep~demlolo~~cal rnetliods
~ost of the data on the lssues pertalnlng to he sowal context was obtalned from the
study nilage
However, In order to study the attitude of the parents In glwng health
care lo the~r chlldren, add~t~onal data were collected from a teNary hospital (JIPMER)
and Government Chest Cllnlc, Pondlcheny, for reasons already glven In the chapter on
overwew of study des~gn (Chapter 3) Data on care In acute ~llness were collected from
the tertlary care hosp~tal, and chron~c illness from both the tert~ary care hosp~tal and
Chest Cllnlc Care was taken to see that the data were obtalned from patlents from
mral areas and w~th a background slmllar to that of the study wllage The methodology
adopted for the rural as well as the urban areas IS bnefly descnbed below -
(I) Rural area
a Census
Whlle tak~ng census of the study wllage relevant lnformabon perta~nlng to the soclal
lssues llke ~mmunlzatlon Status (health care), age of menarche, age of mamage and
flrst ch~ld blrth was obtalned for chlldren between 520 years of age The deta~ls were
entered on a stmctured form
3 Cohort
Data on actlvlty pattern was obtalned from the cohort that was selected for studles On
morb~d~ty, d~et and school absenteeism These chlldren were ws~ted once a month and