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fJecemberI994 They were selected In such a way that the duration and severity of
illness in both the genders matched
5 Government Chest Clinic Pondicherry
Details of treatment glven to children below 15 years of age during the penod
January,l994-December,1994 at Government Chest Clinlc, Pondicherry were obtained
from the case records and entered in a stnrctured form.
7 3 3 Cost analysrs
Data on the expenses assoc~ated w~th the annual household consumption d~rect cost
of Illness of a ch~ld to the fam~ly d~rect cost of school educatron of a ch~ld and the
expenses assoc~ated w~th some Important soc~al events In the famlly lhke celebrat~ng
attainment of puberty marriage and flrst chlld b~rth to a g~rl were obta~ned to f~nd out
the economlc burden of hawng a g~fi ch~ld In the fam~ly Data were collected on a
predeslgned and pretested structured form from the famil~es from which the cohort of
chlldren were selected For d~rect cost of ~llness, deta~ls of expenses assoc~ated with
glvlng health care dunng the one year followup penod were obtalned For expenses
assoc~ated w~th celebrat~ng attainment of puberty mamage and first chlld blrth to a glrl,
data were obta~ned from those famrl~es that had such celebrattons In the preced~ng five
years
7.4 Results
Tne results pertaining to the issues under the social status of school age ch~ldren,
denved both by ethnographic and other epidemiological methods are descnbed in thls