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jc) Health care and the air1 child<br />

(i) Ethnographic methods<br />

All <strong>of</strong> them felt that attentlon should be glven to a slck chlid whether it was a boy or a<br />

girl They do not glve d~fferent care for boys and girls. They felt that a chlld, whether<br />

boy or girl was very preuous<br />

(ii) Other epidemiological methods<br />

Data from rural area<br />

3 Immunization<br />

1. From the data collected along wtth the census ~t was observed that out <strong>of</strong> 503 glds<br />

and 516 boys between 520 years <strong>of</strong> age, 426 (84 7%) glds and 465 (90 12%) boys<br />

were completely ~mmunlzed w~th DPT (p < 0 05)<br />

2. In the cross sect~onal rnorb~d~ty survey In school, 217 out <strong>of</strong> 591 girls (36 7%) and<br />

274 out <strong>of</strong> 758 boys (362%) had endence <strong>of</strong> ~mmunlzatlon w~th BCG vacclne (p ><br />

0 05)<br />

3 Morbidity<br />

There was no s~gnlflcant dlfference In the overall morb~dlty between girls and boys In<br />

the cross sectional morbldlty survey In school as well as In the cohort study<br />

3 Attention in sickness and type <strong>of</strong> health care<br />

No slgnlflcant dlfference was observed In the type <strong>of</strong> health care glven to girls and boys<br />

as per school survey and cohort study (p > 0 05) In the cohort study, ~t was also<br />

observed that 7 out <strong>of</strong> a total <strong>of</strong> 127 eplsodes (5 5%) <strong>of</strong> ~llnesses In glds and 13 out <strong>of</strong><br />

179 (7 3%) ep~sodes <strong>of</strong> illnesses In boys were glven <strong>medical</strong> attentlon after a delay <strong>of</strong> 2<br />

days llom the onset <strong>of</strong> lllness (p > 0 05)

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