Body Mass Index and Chronic Energy Deficiency among Adult Santals of Purulia District, West Bengal, India.

Authors

  • Subal Das VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY
  • Kaushık Bose VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

Keywords:

Santal, Body mass index, chronic energy deficiency, Purulia, gender differences.

Abstract

The present community based cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the overall prevalance of undernutrition using BMI (kg/m2) among the Santal adult tribes of  Purulia District, West Bengal, India. Present study is based on the data of height and weight of adults aged 18 years and above from 10 villages of Purulia. A total of 513 (196 males and 317 females) adults aged 18 years and above were measured. One commonly used indicator i.e., BMI were used to evaluate the nutritional status of the subjects. Females were found more underweight than their male counterpart (30.6%) & (63.4%), which is found to be significant (p < 0.001). There is highly significant gender differences in CED (x2= 55.96a; df= 4; p< 0.001). Tribal females of west Bengal were in highly critical situation than other states of the same country (64.2%). Valuable health and nutritional promotion programs can be formulated based on these findings of such researches with the ultimate objective of reducing overall nutritional problem in a population.

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Author Biographies

Subal Das, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY,

Ph.D. RESEARCH SCHOLAR

Kaushık Bose, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY,

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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Published

2010-07-25

How to Cite

Das, S., & Bose, K. (2010). Body Mass Index and Chronic Energy Deficiency among Adult Santals of Purulia District, West Bengal, India. Journal of Human Sciences, 7(2), 488–503. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1123

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Anthropology