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STUDY AREA AND DEMOGRAPHY 4.1 Introduction The main study area was a village called Kedar, in Tamil Nadu, South India. The reasons for choosing the village to prry out the study have already been mentioned (Chapter 3). This chapter describes the study village, its people and dernographlc details collected during the initial census. The census also provided scope for establishing rapport, selection of key informants, members for focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, and also for nonparticipant observation. 4.2 Description of the village (Kedar) 4 2 1 Land and climate Kedar is a small vlllage In V~llupurarn dlstrlct Tam11 Nadu South lndla it 1s sltuated 20krn from V~llupurarn whlch IS a dlstrlct headquarters It is In Interior Tam11 Nadu and 1s about 200 km to tne south west of coastal Chennal the state capltal The vlllage IS sltuated on a flat dry terraln surrounded by rocky hills The total area is about 687 hectares Most of the area cornpnses dry agricultural lands which are malnly dependent on monsoon for lrrlgatlon There are a few wells wlth purnpsets The rnaln crops cultivated are groundnut and paddy apart from other crops llke sesame and cotton Belng located In the dry southern plalns of Tarn11 Nadu the cllmate IS troplwl with hot summers and warm winters The temperature 1s fairly high throughout the year often exceeding 35'C durlng the summer The annual ratnfall 1s around 700 - 1000 rnm
4.22 Itrfreslructun, The village is located near the main road between Villupuram and Th~ruvannamn.s~ and is well connected to the neighboring villages and towns by road. It is about one and a half hours drive from Pondicherry. While most of the houses are thatched huts, there are a few semipucca and pucca houses. The village has adequate supply of water and electricity. The sources of water supply are two tanks, two lakes and two bore wells. Water is supplied to the houses from the two bore wells by pipelines from a water tank Only few houses have a direct pipeline for water supply, Households which do not have a pipe supply collect water from public tap or tanks, and store in containen. There is no drainage system and most of the waste water is let out in the open. Toilet facilities are available only in 4 or 5 houses, which have their own septic tanks. Medical care is provided by the primary health center and the subcenter apart from two allopathic private practitioners, and two faith healers. The village has a government school whlch has primary, middle and high school sections. At the time of census there were 1,881 students studying in the school, out of which 1.031 were from Kedar and the rest from the neighboring villages. The total number of teachers m the school was 33. The student teacher ratio in the pnmary section was 52.4 and middle school was 56.4. The village has a police stabon, a telephone exchange, a panchayat office, a -operative society and a hostel for school boys belonging to the scheduled caste. There are also four Hindu temples. Festivals are celebrated throughout the year. 4.2.3 People The people of Kedar are generally simple, quiet by nature and are socioeconomicsllY backward. Most of them are Hindus. The people are predominantly agricultural laborers, weavers and cultivators. The others are artisans, petty shop owners or
Page 1 and 2: A Case Study of the Health, Educati
Page 3 and 4: ACKNOWLEDGMENT "No man is an island
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS CHAPTER PAQE No. I. INTROD
Page 7 and 8: INTRODUCTION The children of today
Page 9 and 10: phase, there is maximum educational
Page 11 and 12: Apart from the health and education
Page 13 and 14: Jims Jnd Objectives
Page 15 and 16: (c) To study the diet pattern of ch
Page 17 and 18: OVERVIEW OF STUDY DESIGN This chapt
Page 19 and 20: 3.2 Definltlon of age group for the
Page 21 and 22: (11) Pedlatrlcs Inpatlent ward => O
Page 27: - Study Qrea Qnd Demography
Page 31 and 32: and India, is given in Table 4.1. O
Page 35 and 36: TABLE 4.1 AGE AND GENDER SPECIFlC D
Page 37 and 38: TABLE 4.4 DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSEHOLD
Page 39: Distributlon of adult village popul
Page 43 and 44: HEALTH STATUS OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDRE
Page 45 and 46: of chronic illnesses in children le
Page 47 and 48: Bhasin et a1..1990; Gupta et a1..19
Page 49 and 50: eported by ttie School Heallh Cell,
Page 51 and 52: lb) Anemia (i) Global scenario Nutr
Page 53 and 54: serum vitamin A; iii) ophthalmologi
Page 55 and 56: and elimination of iodine deficienc
Page 57 and 58: in 15.7% of the children screened (
Page 59 and 60: 3 Strives to prov~de a healthy envi
Page 61 and 62: nght attitudes and practices. In or
Page 63 and 64: her schooling (XI1 standard) and wa
Page 65 and 66: (iii) Nonparticipant observation No
Page 67 and 68: The height and weight of the chlldr
Page 69 and 70: 5 3.2 Organization of date and anal
Page 71 and 72: eflection of the lower enrollment r
Page 73 and 74: ecommended and the actual intake of
Page 75 and 76: (11) Causes Change of water cold fo
Page 77 and 78: The mean duration of fever was 3.6(
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annual ~nc~dence being 6211,000 chi
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were all unanimous In saying that t
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chlldren from socioeconomically bac
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Le generally lower than the values
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health problem in school age childr
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p91d tltero is widespread use of io
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worms spontaneously formed In the s
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MORBIDITY PATTERN m S= S Year oi pu
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1ABLE 5.3 PREVALENCE OF VITAMIN A D
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I'HKVAl.H.NC'lr. O W ItIIIIIIMA I I
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METHODS OF SNDY USED FOR DIFFERENT
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TABLE 5.8 B ISSUES ADDRESSED BY DWF
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TABLE 5.8 B (continued) ISSUES ADDR
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TABLE 5.10 A COMPARISON OF MEAN INT
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TABLE 5.10 C COMPARISON OF MEAN INT
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COMPARISON OF MEAN INTAKE OF THIAMI
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COMPARlSON OF MEAN INTAKE OF PROTEI
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TABLE 5.11D COMPARISON OF MEAN INTA
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TABLE 5.13 PHKVALLNC'R OF UIFQEUEN'
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TABLE 5.15 COMPARISON OF PREVALENCE
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TABLE 5.19 PREVALENCE OF NUTRITIONA
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TABLE 5.22 PREVALENCE OF %FECTIOUS
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TABLE 5.23 (continued) COMPARISON O
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TABLE 5.25 ANNUAL INCIDENCE OF DlFF
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TABLE 5.28 ( OMPARISON OF SPEC'IRII
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TABLE 5.29 COMPARISON OF REPORTED S
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TABLE 5.33 BY THE PARAMEDICAI. WORK
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FIGURE 5.2 Comparison of age and ge
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FIGURE 5.5 Monthly variation in the
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FIGURE 5.6 Comparlson of age specif
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FIGURE 5.10 Age specific body mass
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FIGURE 5.14 Prevalence of important
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EDUCATION STATUS OF SCHOOL AGE CHIL
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6.2.2 Indian Scenario (8) Literact
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32.5% for girls and 15.9% for boys
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summary tables givlng details of th
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namely school records and census It
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school butldlng should be better Th
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(iii) Proportion of children in the
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8, "During groundnut picking season
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6.4.3 Dropout @) Maanitude and ~att
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C, Case Studies Case N0.l Dhanalaks
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,haracter of ch~ldren and help them
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Researchers have not been able to c
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allage, local fesbvals and funct~on
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TABLE 6.3 PERCENTAGE OF GIRLS REACH
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TABLE 6.4 (continued) ('OMPAHISON O
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I TABLE 6.5 A (continued) ' USED FO
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1 TABLE 6.5 B (continued) ISSUES AD
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TABLE 6.8 ('OMPARISON OP CAUSKS OF
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TABLE 6.10 COMPARISON OF CAUSES OF
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TABLE 6.12 COMPARISON OF CAllSES OF
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FIGURE 6.1 Literacy rates in female
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FIGURE 6.3 Comparison of age and ge
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FIGURE 6.5 Comparison of proportion
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FIGURE 6.7 Dropout pattern in glrls
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SOCIAL STATUS OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDRE
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tremendous Increase in the enrollme
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children had lower contact rates th
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female ch~ldren showed that between
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was felt that more information coul
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detalls of the~r actlv~ties In the
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sectlon For each Issue, the observa
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"eglected the smaller of the twlns
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many (53 1%) preferred to take them
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(11) Data from tertiary care hospit
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so However, some (22 5O/0) were w~l
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(i~) Cohort 3 In the cohort, 54 out
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(i) Work The daily actlvlty pattern
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not interfere with a girl's educati
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The following are some of the state
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was collected from 99 familles The
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on the Issue of school age g~rls (U
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een found that in some parts of the
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48 0% In glrls and 52 0% In boys Th
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as an excuse to stop thelr girls fr
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stud~es compared to boys, although
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TABLE 7.1 A METHOD OF STUDY USED FO
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I TABLE 7.1 A (continued) METHOD OF
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TABLE 7.1 B(conthued) \IPllIOIfi I
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TABLE 7.1 B(coatlnued) ISSUES ADDRE
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TABLE 7.2 A RELATIVE DISTRlBUTION O
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TABLE 7.3 COMPARISON OF TIME INTERV
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TABLE 7.6 COMPARISON OF DAILY ACTIV
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TABLE 7.8 COMPARISON OF COST ALLOCA
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TABLE 7.10 ( O~~PARISON OF ANNUAL c
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TABLE 7.12 A COMPARISON OF ANNUAL R
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FIGURE 7.1 Distribution of daily ac
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FIGURE 7.3 Distribution of work pat
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Summary And Concliusions
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data for certaln Issues were obtaln
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(ii) Other epidemiological methods
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VHN and PHC records I. The records
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expected the school to do everyth~n
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stopplng from school They felt that
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jc) Health care and the air1 child
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Data from Government Chest Clinic,
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hlgher than In boys, the difference
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(lv) Cost of household consumption
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RECOMMENDATIONS Based on the flndln
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9.4 Recommondatins for future resea
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Ayit~wnl, V K . Agntwo
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Bamji. M.S.. Sarma. R.K.V.. Radhaia
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Bundy, D.A.P., Guyatt, H.L. (1996).
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Kapoor, G., Aneja, S. (1992). Nutri
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Umeh. R.E.. Chijloke, C.P.. Okonkwo
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* Not to be Rlled In the fleld " Co
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School children-Girl Chlld S.A Form
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School children Girl child S.A ID.
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Form to be filled up during follow
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h. I'arliril,nlio~~ ill 1111usrhol
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.%A / WirJa 11. as! tad uq.& ~a .WA
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