A study on health problems of rural women and their socio-economic determinants
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Date
2019
Authors
Harvinder Kaur
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CCSHAU
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Health is a main determinant of human development as it has socio-economic relationship with the quality of life. The right of health is the most basic of all human rights. The present study was conducted in Haryana state with the following specific objectives: (i) To study the nature of health problems faced by rural women. (ii) To assess the knowledge level of women about various health aspects. (iii) To delineate the social, economic and psychological factors affecting women‟s health.
The sample of 120 respondents was selected from two villages i.e. Kanhri and Bohdi of Fatehabad district, through simple random sampling technique. Data were collected through interview schedule and analyzed with suitable statistical techniques. Majority of women belonged to young age group (42.5%), general caste (50.00%), joint family (50.8%), medium size family (56.7%) and were married (99.2%) and educated up to high school (38.3%). General knowledge of respondents about food and health aspects was high while specific knowledge and nutritional deficiency knowledge was found moderate to low. One fourth respondents suffered from gynecological diseases. Associations of age and caste with various health aspects were found statistically significant with place of delivery, cutting method of placenta, diseases and medical checkups during pregnancy, small family norms and work excessiveness. Education of respondents was found significantly associated with place of delivery, cutting method of placenta, diseases and medical checkup during pregnancy. Family size was found significantly associated with medical checkups during pregnancy, small family norms and work excessiveness. Respondents had high knowledge about general health aspects (42.5%) and found significantly associated with age and education, whereas specific and nutritional deficiencies knowledge was moderate (52.50% each) and found associated with education and age. Respondents from the age group of 20-25 years had good health status (61.91%) and respondents from joint family and high income group also had good health status (57.14% and 59.32%, respectively).
It was concluded that there was significant impact of various socio- economic factors on health status of rural women. The findings pointed out that there is urgent need to educate women about their own health and increase their knowledge about specific and nutritional deficiencies.
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