Health status and lifestyle of the Oraon tea garden labourers of Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal

Work and Health in India ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447327363.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Subrata K. Roy ◽

Tanaya Kundu Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Work Environment ◽

West Bengal ◽

Health Condition ◽

Physical Health Status ◽

Health Lifestyles ◽

The Poor ◽

Medical Facilities ◽

Tea Garden ◽

Sufficient Food

This chapter looks at the health and lifestyle factors among tea garden labourers in West Bengal. Tea garden labourers enjoy access to some free facilities like education for children, medical facilities, piped drinking water, housing, and subsidised food. Yet they still suffer from several health problems. This might be due to insufficient or inadequately maintained facilities, poor lifestyles, or a mixture thereof. The chapter then focuses on the work environment, lifestyles, and physical health status of Oraon tea garden labourers of Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal. The results reveal that around 60 per cent of the labourers are underweight, despite reporting that they were getting sufficient food to eat. Poor hygienic practices may explain these results. Anaemia was also high for both sexes. Ultimately, the overall health condition of the labourers may be explained by the poor health lifestyles that they have adopted in response to their work environment.

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Health: Cognition and Threshold among the Oraon Tea Garden Labourers of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal

Journal of Anthropology ◽

10.1155/2013/987584 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Subrata K. Roy ◽

Sujata Kar Chakraborty ◽

Arupendra Mozumdar

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

West Bengal ◽

Perceived Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Problems ◽

Noncommunicable Diseases ◽

Mortality Data ◽

Perceived Health Status ◽

The People ◽

Tea Garden

There is scarcity of health information in many subpopulations in India, which needs to be explored for formulating effective public health policy. Studies on the tea garden population revealed that poor socioeconomic conditions, ignorance due to illiteracy, culture and food habit, overcrowding, and unhygienic living conditions make the population vulnerable to various communicable and noncommunicable diseases and malnutrition. Data were collected from the labourers of Birpara and Dalgaon tea gardens of Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal. The objective was to identify the primary health care available vis-à-vis the health problems. The results were based on mortality data, subjective well-being, frequency of ailment symptoms, perceived health status, and selected health practices as well as some observations, which indicate their cognition and threshold regarding health problems, presented as case studies. Mortality rates were high in the population; comparative mortality data shows no considerable change in mortality rate over time and space. A very high frequency of anaemia was prevalent among females along with sore throat and abdominal pain. Perceived health status of most of the people was good, although that was not always true, because the perception of the people often depends on their threshold and cognition about health and disease.

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Acute-phase protein concentrations in serum of clinically healthy and diseased European bison (Bison bonasus) – preliminary study

BMC Veterinary Research ◽

10.1186/s12917-021-03133-z ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Małgorzata Pomorska-Mól ◽

Kacper Libera ◽

Magdalena Larska ◽

Michał K. Krzysiak

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Serum Concentration ◽

Acute Phase ◽

Serum Amyloid A ◽

Health Condition ◽

Serum Amyloid ◽

European Bison ◽

Acid Glycoprotein ◽

Amyloid A ◽

The Poor

Abstract Background This is the first report describing levels of APPs in European bison. Serum concentration of acute phase proteins (APPs) may be helpful to assess general health status in wildlife and potentially useful in selecting animals for elimination. Since there is a lack of literature data regarding concentration of APPs in European bisons, establishment of the reference values is also needed. Methods A total of 87 European bison from Polish populations were divided into two groups: (1) healthy: immobilized for transportation, placing a telemetry collar and routine diagnostic purposes; and (2) selectively culled due to the poor health condition. The serum concentration of haptoglobin, serum amyloid A and α1-acid-glycoprotein were determined using commercial quantitative ELISA assays. Since none of the variables met the normality assumptions, non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test was used for all comparisons. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Statistical analyses were performed using Statistica 13.3 (Tibco, USA). Results The concentration of haptoglobin and serum amyloid A was significantly higher in animals culled (euthanised) due to the poor condition in respect to the clinically healthy European bison. The levels of α1-acid-glycoprotein did not show statistical difference between healthy and sick animals. Conclusions Correlation between APPs concertation and health status was proven, therefore the determination of selected APPs may be considered in future as auxiliary predictive tool in assessing European bison health condition.

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Analysis of posture and discomfort feelings of grinders in different foundries in West Bengal

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20205156 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (12) ◽

pp. 4805

Author(s):

Das Chandan ◽

Das Suman ◽

Banerjee Debamalya ◽

Samanta Amalendu ◽

Bhattacharyya Bidyut Kumar

Keyword(s):

Heart Rate ◽

Working Conditions ◽

West Bengal ◽

Research Work ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Health Condition ◽

The Body ◽

Survey Method ◽

Small Scale ◽

The Poor

Background: The most essential part of manufacturing the products is grinding. Health and safety of workers are the most important issues in this unit now a days. High productivity as well as maximum turnover is the highest interest of these units. Target oriented work puts some pressure on the workers that also increase their muscular and body stresses. Methods: The research work was done in different small-scale grinding units in West Bengal. The snap shot of 20 workers in different grinding units was obtained and evaluated with the help of rapid upper limb assessment. NIOSH’s discomfort survey method was used for mapping the different areas of pain, dissatisfactions during the operation. Heart rate and postural stresses were also noticed. Results: This research work also shows that the poor working conditions enhance the body stresses and the discomfort level of grinders. The highest heart rate also indicates the poor health condition of grinders. Poor environmental conditions, specially noise and heat were common in grinding units. Conclusions: It can be concluded that MSDs were present in the activities carried out in grinding units where the major number of workers were involved in bad body postures. This research work also shows that the poor working conditions enhance the body stresses and the discomfort level of grinders.

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