Socio Economic Characteristics of Self Help Group Tribal Women in Nilgiris District, India

Socio-Economic Status of Women in India: A Review

Any assessment of the status of women has to start from the social framework, social structures, cultural norms and value systems that influence social expectations regarding the behaviour of both men and women and determine women‟s roles and their position in society. A society is composed of many institutions and most important of them are the system of decent, family and kinship, marriage an...

Socio-economic & household risk factors of malaria in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh, central India

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Malaria is a major public health problem in many States of the country, particularly, in Madhya Pradesh where both Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum are endemic. Although many studies have been conducted to investigate risk factors for malaria, but only a few have examined household and socio-economic risk factors. The present study was, therefore, undertaken to explore...

Prevalence of female infertility and its socio-economic factors in tribal communities of Central India.

INTRODUCTION The Khairwar tribe of India is dwindling due to infertility and migration. The study investigates an extensive infertility problem among Khairwar and non-Khairwar tribes in the same geographical area. The objective of the study was to determine for the first time the prevalence of infertility in these two tribal groups. METHOD The study was carried out in the Kusmi block of the S...

Health Status of Tribal Women in India

The paper discusses the health status of the tribal women in relation to sex ratio, age at marriage, fertility, mortality, life expectancy, nutritional status, maternal and child health care practices, sexually transmitted diseases, genetic disorders, etc. the health status of tribal women is found to be lower than that of the Indian women in general on most of these aspects. Gaps in knowledge ...

Economic and Social Impacts of Self-Help Groups in India