scholarly journals Extent of Anaemia among Preschool Children in EAG States, India: A Challenge to Policy Makers

Anemia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Kumar Singh ◽  
Shraboni Patra
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Logistics Regression ◽  
National Family ◽  
Eag States ◽  
Prevalence Of Anemia

Background.India is the highest contributor to child anemia. About 89 million children in India are anemic. The study determines the factors that contributed to child anemia and examines the role of the existing programs in reducing the prevalence of child anemia particularly in the EAG states.Methods.The data from the latest round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) is used. Simple bivariate and multinomial logistics regression analyses are used.Results.About 70% children are anemic in all the EAG states. The prevalence of severe anemia is the highest (6.7%) in Rajasthan followed by Uttar Pradesh (3.6%) and Madhya Pradesh (3.4%). Children aged 12 to 17 months are significantly seven times (RR=7.99,P<0.001) more likely to be severely anemic compared to children of 36 to 59 months. Children of severely anemic mothers are also found to be more severely anemic (RR=15.97,P<0.001) than the children of not anemic mothers.Conclusions.The study reveals that the existing government program fails to control anemia among preschool children in the backward states of India. Therefore, there is an urgent need for monitoring of program in regular interval, particularly for EAG states to reduce the prevalence of anemia among preschool children.

Challenges for Entrepreneurs of ‘Religious Tourism Circuits’: A Study of ‘Holy City’ Kurukshetra

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reeti Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Restaurant Owners ◽  
Holy City

Government of India launched a ‘Swadesh Darshan Scheme’ in January 2015 that pinpoints 13 designated circuits including Ramayana circuit, Krishna Circuit, Buddhist Circuit, and Spiritual Circuit to promote religious and cultural tourism in the country. Kurukshetra is a ‘Holy City’ of State of Haryana that is recently been added in ‘Krishna Religious Tourism Circuit’. ‘Krishna Circuit’ embraces inherent mythology and beliefs pertaining to Lord Krishna and includes different place of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujrat, and Odisha for tourism facilitation. This scheme is alleged to contribute significantly in increasing the attractiveness of certain religious tourist destinations. Tourism entrepreneurs like hoteliers, restaurant owners, tour operators, travel agencies as well as religious entrepreneurs (Shinde, 2010) such as religious gurus, priests and managers of temples and ashrams are expected to get benefited from the initiatives proposed in the scheme in varied ways. Given the significant role of this scheme for growth of entrepreneurs, the present study aims to highlight the challenges faced by entrepreneurs that deserve attention of policy makers.

VARIATION IN HEIGHT AND BMI OF ADULT INDIANS

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUPARNA SOM ◽  
STANLEY ULIJASZEK ◽  
MANORANJAN PAL ◽  
SUSMITA BHARATI ◽  
PREMANANDA BHARATI
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Normal Height ◽  
Socioeconomic Variables ◽  
Overweight People ◽  
National Family ◽  
Different Levels

SummaryIt is well known that height and weight are interrelated, and that both are related to socioeconomic variables. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of socioeconomic variables on the heights and weights of different groups of people, formed according to different levels of heights and weights, and to see whether there are sex differences in the variations in heights and weights. Data for adults aged 15–49 years were taken from the India National Family Health Survey-3 and descriptive studies and multiple linear regression analyses carried out. A clear positive association was found for height and BMI with economic level (except for overweight females in the case of BMI). In the case of BMI, it is age that seems to be the most influential factor. Surprisingly, the observed changes in height and BMI are not as expected for short and tall or underweight and overweight people; these sometimes behave in the opposite directions to that of normal height and weight people. The basic assumption of multivariate normality is not valid due to changing relations at different height and BMI levels.

scholarly journals Role of Innovation in Sustainable Sanitation System: A Case Study of India

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Sumit Shekhar ◽  
◽  
Amrita Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Family Health ◽  
Wealth Index ◽  
National Family Health Survey ◽  
System A ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
National Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Product And Process

Sanitation and water are one of those problems which have been given top priority in the sustainable agenda. However, scanty resources, geographical condition, natural environment, tradition, institutional and financial constraints lead to several challenges of feasibility, affordability, availability,and acceptability. This study reveals the inequality in the access to improved toilet facilities based on wealth index and locality of households using National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data. These problems can be addressed by applying different types of social innovations in which novelty in product and process can play a crucial role. This paper critically examines the role of innovation which can play in expanding transition to sustainable development in the sanitation sector which needs some financial, organizational, and institutional agreement. The progress in sanitation sector is dependent on the consumer behavior. However, it still lacks a variety of quality-price ranges and its utility as the basic needs of dignified life.

scholarly journals Smoking trends among women in India: Analysis of nationally representative surveys (1993–2009)

2014 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 200-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonu Goel ◽  
Jaya Prasad Tripathy ◽  
Rana J. Singh ◽  
Pranay Lal
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Prevalence ◽  
Family Health ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
National Family ◽  
Disaggregated Data ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Smoking Trends ◽  
Women In India

Abstract Background: There is growing concern among policy makers with respect to alarming growth in smoking prevalence among women in the developing countries. Methods: Using disaggregated data from five nationally representative surveys: Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2010, National Family Health Survey-III (NFHS-III) 2004-2005, NFHS-II 1998-1999, National Sample Survey (NSS) 52 nd Round 1995-1996, NSS 50 th Round 1993-1994 we analysed female smoking trend from 1993-2009. Tobacco use among females was monitored for almost two decades focusing on gender, literacy, and state-specific trends among respondents aged >15 years. Results: Smoking use among women has doubled from 1.4% to 2.9% (P < 0.001) during the period 2005-2010. The prevalence of smoking increased with decrease in per capita State Gross Domestic Product and literacy status for both men and women. Conclusion: As the overall smoking prevalence grows, female smoking is growing at a faster rate than smoking among males, which is an emerging concern for tobacco control in India and requires the attention of policymakers.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONSECUTIVE CLOSED BIRTH INTERVALS IN FEMALES IN UTTAR PRADESH

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. YADAVA ◽  
S. S. SHARMA
Keyword(s):  
Health Survey ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
National Family Health Survey ◽  
Birth Intervals ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
National Family

Summary.Most studies of closed birth intervals are regarding their variation at specific orders among females. This paper attempts to study the nature of the distributions of consecutive closed birth intervals. Data from the Uttar Pradesh National Family Health Survey 1998–99 (NFHS-2) were analysed. It was found that, under certain assumptions, the postpartum amenorrhoea period and menstruating interval are negatively associated, indicating that socio-cultural factors are affecting the menstruating interval.

scholarly journals OPEN DEFECATION FREE (ODF) RURAL AND URBAN AREAS: ACHIEVEMENT OF SWACHH BHARAT MISSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (07) ◽  
pp. 490-496
Author(s):  
K. Padmavathi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
National Family ◽  
Indian Census

Sanitation is recognized as a basic human right. UN General Assemblyin July 2010 had adopted a resolution officially recognising Sanitationaccess to, and use of, excreta and wastewater facilities and servicesasa human right. For most of human history, people defecatedin theopen. But in the last century, a lot has changed with toilets becoming anintegral part of homes in most parts of the world. More than half of allpeopleintheworldwhodefecateintheopenliveinIndia.Accordingto 2011 Indian Census, 53.00 per cent of households do not use anykind of toilet or latrine. This essentially matches the 55.00 per centfound by the National Family Health Survey in 2005. In this paper Iattempt to study the role of government and schemes and peoples participation.

scholarly journals Analysis of Retrospective Time to First Pregnancy Data in Uttar Pradesh under Various Dimensions

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Sonam Maheshwari ◽  
Brijesh P. Singh ◽  
P.S. Pudir
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Bayes ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
National Family Health Survey ◽  
Bayes Method ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
National Family ◽  
The Mean

The present study deals with the estimation of the mean value of fecundability by fitting a theoretical distribution from the observed distribution of first conception of the women, who did not use any contraceptive method before their first conception. It is assumed that fecundability is fixed for a given couple, but across couples it varies according to a specified distribution. Under the classical approach, methods of moment and maximum likelihood are used while for Bayesian approach, empirical Bayes method used. A real data analysis from the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III, 2005-06) is analyzed as an application of model for various age at marriage groups of women. Finally, a simulation study is performed to access the performance of the several of methods used in this paper.Journal of Institute of Science and Technology, 2015, 20(1): 51-58

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