Premananda Bharati
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 120790 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Premananda Bharati |
| NOMBRES | Premananda |
| APELLIDO | Bharati |
| FIRMA | BHARATI P |
| AFILIACIONES | Indian Statistical Institute |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Socio-demographic Factors Influencing Short Birth Intervals Among Tribal Women in Assam
Ensuring a healthy life for both mother and child hinges significantly on maintaining an optimal birth interval. The goal of the current study is to determine the practice of birth intervals, as well as the potential contributing factors among a tribal community in Assam, India. The sample comprises 362 Dibongiya Deori women whose husbands are alive and who have experienced at least two consecutive live births. To shed light on the factors influe…
Effect of Dance on Body Type
Due to the economic development in Indian society, most people are experiencing a sedentary lifestyle and least physical exercise, which is responsible for the increase in various health issues. Exercise plays a great role in maintaining our health, and dancing is an enjoyable exercise which involves various body movements to stay fit and maintain the body shape. The present study attempted to find out the differences in body types between female…
Nutritional status of tribal and non-tribal school-going children in rural Bangladesh
In rural Bangladesh, the nutritional status of T and NT school-going children did not show significant defferences. However, the mean z-score values for both groups of children were lower than the WHO standard, indicating that both communities have poor nutritional status
Regional variation in body size and estimated secular change among adult Indian males born in the 1890s–1950s
Regional variation in the body size of Indian men 18-84 years of age (birth years 1891-1957) was considered. Heights, weights, and BMIs of Indian males from four regions of the country - North, East-Northeast, Central, and West were compared. Heights of men 35+ years of age were adjusted for estimated height loss with age; the estimate was added to observed height to provide an estimate of maximum height. Linear regressions of measured height and…
Body size and weight status of adult Indian males born in the 1890s–1950s
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate secular change in body size and weight status of adult Indian males born in 1891-1957 and surveyed in the 1970s. METHODS: Data are from Anthropological Surveys. Only men were included in the surveys due to high female illiteracy and lack of female researchers. Indian society was also strongly conservative at the time, especially in rural areas, and the measurement of women by men was not permitted. Heights and weights of 4…
Hypertension and its risk factors among the Shabar tribe
In developing countries like India, the increasing trend of hypertension is one of the significant public health problems. In recent times, the Indian tribes are also experiencing a similar trend, which is rarely documented and less emphasized. The objectives of the present study are to assess the prevalence of hypertension among the Shabar tribe and to understand the association with some selected biological, behavioural and socio-economic facto…
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Overweight/Obesity in Adolescent School Girls
Overweight and obesity in adolescent girls are considered a leading global public health issues in recent times. There is a need to evaluate the potential socioeconomic and behavioural factors behind adolescents' overweight and obesity in different environmental settings. The present study aims to understand the prevalence of overweight and obesity among urban adolescent school girls and to determine the association between selected socioeconomic…
Violence against women in West Bengal
Violence against women (VAW) is a common phenomenon in orthodox Indian society. Women are here trained to tolerate violence since their childhood. Although it is an age-old problem, it has come into the spotlight after the Beijing world conference. Since then, the Indian government and NGOs have started to take numerous steps to eradicate this crime, but it not only continues to persist in the society but is also increasing over time. Based on th…
Prevalence of anaemia among 6- to 59-month-old children in India
India is the highest contributor to child anaemia among developing countries. To see the latest picture of child anaemia in India, data for 6- to 59-month-old children were taken from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey conducted in 2015–16 (NFHS-4). The study sample consisted of 1,37,347 children. The dependent variable was the anaemia status of the child. The objectives of the study were to assess (i) the distribution of anaem…
Lung Functions and Their Correlations With Height, Weight and Body Surface Area Among the High and Low Altitude Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh, India
Effects of menstrual characteristics, symptoms and hygiene-related practices on menstrual experience
Adolescence is a significant event in woman's life when the process of menstruation occurs with several physical, mental and physiological developments. Menstrual experience of women is largely determined by environmental factors occurring during this period. In India, disparities in numerous factors result in different menstrual characteristics, menstruation-related symptoms and menstrual hygiene-related practices. However, the effect of residen…
Malnutrition and anaemia among adult women in India
The latest National Family Health Survey conducted in 2015–16 (NFHS-4) showed that malnutrition and anaemia still pose huge health challenges in India. Data on 651,642 adult non-pregnant women aged 15–49 years were taken from the survey to study the nutritional and anaemia statuses of adult women by Indian zone and state. The relationships of these two variables with the women’s urban/rural place of residence, education level, religion and eating…
Applications of Regression Techniques
Influence of socio-economic status and television watching on childhood obesity in Kolkata
Inequality, Poverty and Development in India
Variation in Height and Bmi of Adult Indians
It 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…
Physical growth and nutritional status of Car Nicobarese and Moplah children of Andaman–Nicobar Islands in India
Body Mass Index of Married Bangladeshi Women
Body mass index (BMI) is a good indicator of nutritional status in a population. In underdeveloped countries like Bangladesh, this indicator provides a method that can assist intervention to help eradicate many preventable diseases. This study aimed to report on changes in the BMI of married Bangladeshi women who were born in the past three decades and its association with socio-demographic factors. Data for 10,115 married and currently non-pregn…
Is son preference pervasive in India
Indian women usually crave at least one son and will continue to try for a son even if they have five or more daughters. The spatial variation of women's preference for sons has been studied in this paper. We have also investigated the effect of socio-economic and socio-cultural variables on son preference through use of the National Family Health Survey data of 2005–2006. The study is based on 81,844 reproductive-aged women (15–49 years old) fro…
Impact of Habitation on Underweight among Shabar Preschool Children in Orissa
This cross-sectional study was undertaken to explore habitation-wise (urban, rural and forest) difference of underweight prevalence in Shabar preschool children and its associated factors. Data comprised of 167 children aged 0 to 5 years. Highest prevalence of underweight was found in the rural (60.0%) and least among the forest children. Higher birth order, illiteracy, mother’s undernutrition, poor economy, larger family size and inadequate brea…
Do Socio-economic Development and Improvement of Health Go Together
Socio-economic development in a country is very much linked with the improvement of overall status of health of the people in the country. The causality works both ways. However, the degree of relations between the two varies over region and time. This article is an attempt to show how health status is linked with the socio-economic status in different states of India. The health status is seen only for children and women and the data are taken f…
A Study of Reproductive and Child Health among the Dhur Gond Tribal Community of Mahasamund District, Chhattisgarh, India
Present cross-sectional study was conducted to understand the pregnancy related women reproductive health, infant and child morality and also to assess the nutritional status of mother and under five children among Dhur Gond tribal community of Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh, India. 174 ever married women and 68 under five children were selected for the present study. Pre-structured schedule was used to collect socio-economic, demographic, r…
Adult body dimension and determinants of chronic energy deficiency among the Shabar tribe living in urban, rural and forest habitats in Orissa, India
Body fat content was found to be the major difference in body dimension across different habitats and rural women may be a vulnerable group
Sexual Maturation and Physical Status among the Adolescent Jain Girls of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
This cross-sectional study is aimed at understanding the nature of sexual maturation vis à vis physical status of the Jain girls in comparison with other data of India. A survey was carried out to assess the development of secondary sexual characters in the background of a purely vegetarian diet, and measurements of height and weight. The present study represents 50 individuals in each age group from 8 through 18 years of Jain girls of Madhya Pra…
Determinants of Nutritional Status of Pre-School Children in India
The aim of this paper is to assess the spatial distribution of nutritional status of children of less than three years through Z -scores of weight-for-age, height-for-age and weight-for-height using data collected by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2, 1998–99), India. The nutritional status of pre-school children was regressed on different socio-demographic factors after eliminating the effect of age. The data show that there are gender d…
Sex Bias in Intrahousehold Food Distribution
Body Mass Index and Chronic Energy Deficiency of Adult Males of Central Indian Populations
Data on body weight, height, and sitting height from 11,496 adult males, age 18-62 years, belonging to 38 different populations of five major social groups (scheduled tribes, scheduled castes, "other backward castes," general castes, and Muslims) of Central India were taken for our analysis to assess the nutritional status of these groups. Cormic index and body mass index (BMI) were computed, and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was carried out am…
Prevalence and Causes of Chronic Energy Deficiency and Obesity in Women of India
We investigate the nutritional status of women in India and its relation to the prevalence of chronic energy deficiency (CED) and obesity. To do this, we have used the data from the Indian National Family Health Survey, 1998-1999, on body mass index (BMI) of ever-married women, ages 15-49 years, along with several socioeconomic factors, such as level of education, religion or caste, occupational status, and standard of living index. The study was…
Food practices in contrasting populations
Is son preference pervasive in India
Indian women usually crave at least one son and will continue to try for a son even if they have five or more daughters. The spatial variation of women's preference for sons has been studied in this paper. We have also investigated the effect of socio-economic and socio-cultural variables on son preference through use of the National Family Health Survey data of 2005–2006. The study is based on 81,844 reproductive-aged women (15–49 years old) fro…
Effects of altitude, ethnicity‐religion, geographical distance, and occupation on adult anthropometric characters of eastern Himalayan populations
With a view to estimating the effect of altitude on body dimensions vis‐à‐vis ethnicity‐religion, geographical distance, and occupation, a comprehensive multivariate statistical analysis was performed on data pertaining to 16 anthropometric characters collected from 1,103 individuals (643 males and 460 females) belonging to two ethnic groups—Sherpa and Lepcha. Samples were drawn from several locations in the eastern Himalayan region—Darjeeling an…
Relationship between menarcheal age and nutritional anthropometry in urban girls of the Howrah District, West Bengal, India
Regional variation in body size and estimated secular change among adult Indian males born in the 1890s–1950s
Regional variation in the body size of Indian men 18-84 years of age (birth years 1891-1957) was considered. Heights, weights, and BMIs of Indian males from four regions of the country - North, East-Northeast, Central, and West were compared. Heights of men 35+ years of age were adjusted for estimated height loss with age; the estimate was added to observed height to provide an estimate of maximum height. Linear regressions of measured height and…
Red-cell enzyme study among some migrant tribal populations in the Andaman Islands
Economic condition and demography among the Mahishyas of Chakpota village, Howrah district, West Bengal
Demographic and socioeconomic data were collected from the Hindu, Mahishya caste community of Chakpota village, Amta Police Station area, Howrah district, West Bengal, to examine the possible effects of economic differences on fertility and mortality, and their potential genetic consequences. The age structure of the low, medium and high economic groups suggests decreasing growth potentials from the former to the latter, with a recent decline of …
Intestinal parasitic infestations in populations inhabiting similar and contrasting ecological zones
Dietary status of Mahishyas in Chakpota
The Human Adaptability Programme was initiated in the Indian Statistical Institute in 1976. The present study on dietary consumption of the three Economic Groups of the Mahishya caste population of Chakpota village, Amta area, Howrah district, West Bengal, India, was undertaken to examine whether there were any differences in the amounts of nutrients consumed by households in the same and different Economic Groups. We also studied day‐to‐day vari…
Effects of altitude, ethnicity‐religion, geographical distance, and occupation on adult anthropometric characters of eastern Himalayan populations
With a view to estimating the effect of altitude on body dimensions vis‐à‐vis ethnicity‐religion, geographical distance, and occupation, a comprehensive multivariate statistical analysis was performed on data pertaining to 16 anthropometric characters collected from 1,103 individuals (643 males and 460 females) belonging to two ethnic groups—Sherpa and Lepcha. Samples were drawn from several locations in the eastern Himalayan region—Darjeeling an…
Sex Bias in Intrahousehold Food Distribution
Food practices in contrasting populations
Variation in adult body dimensions in relation to economic condition among the Mahishyas of Howrah district, West Bengal, India
The body dimensions of adults in three economic subgroups of the Mahishya caste population of Chakpota village, Howrah district, West Bengal, India, were studied. In both sexes, with the decline in economic condition values of body size measurements, skinfold thickness, body fat and anthropometric indices decrease, with the exception of the ponderal index, the value of which increases. The sex difference in height increases with increasing econom…
Fertility, mortality and maternal anaemic status in a village population of West Bengal, India
The present study was conducted on a Mahishya agricultural caste population of Chakpota village, Howrah district, West Bengal, India to enquire into the possible relations of anaemia, and fertility and mortality. The results confirm that negative relations exist between heamoglobin level of the mother, on the one hand, and fertility and offspring mortality, on the other
Relationship between menarcheal age and nutritional anthropometry in urban girls of the Howrah District, West Bengal, India
The demographic situation in India
Climate and head form in India
The relationship between head form and climatic variation was investigated in different tribal and caste populations of India. The magnitude of the cephalic index varies significantly in different zones. In tropical zones, head form is longer (dolicocephalic), but in temperate zones, head form is more round (mesocephalic or brachycephalic), especially among Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Scheduled Castes (SC) than among other castes. These trends poss…
Health and Nutritional Status of Ho Preschool Children of Orissa
The present paper deals with the factors, which directly or indirectly affects the health and nutritional status of the Ho preschool children of Keonjhar district, Orissa. A sample of 191 children of 110 households were measured for height, weight and midarm circumference. The results show that malnutrition decreases with increase of age. The impact of family size, income and birth order shows that less than 7 family size has little effect wherea…
Perspective in Human Growth, Development and Maturation
Dimensions and Causes of Child Malnutrition
The aim of the paper is to assess child malnutrition and delineate the factors contributing to the observed pattern of malnutrition among preschool children from three specific population namely-Saryupari Brahmin, Teli and Rawat of Raipur district of Chattisgarh, India through nutritional anthropometric survey. The nutritional anthropometric data collected on 121 Saryupari Brahmin (57 boys and 64 girls), 93 Rawat (49 boys and 46 girls) and 97 Tel…
Height, weight and earnings among coalminers in India
Women's Status and Health of Two Ethnic Groups Inhabiting a Periurban Habitat of Kolkata City, India
We studied the interrelationship of women's status in terms of socioeconomic inequality and its effect on women's health at micro level between two ethnic groups in a periurban area of Kolkata City, India. One-hundred twenty-seven women who belong to a tribal population (Munda) and 174 women who belong to a caste population (Poundrakshatriya) participated in this study. We found significant differences between various (socioeconomic, demographic,…
Effect of Working Patterns on Women's Health in two Ethnic Groups in a Peri-Urban Area of Kolkata City, India
In order to assess the impact of agricultural work on the nutritional status of women, we examined 301 women inhabiting a peri-urban environment around Kolkata City, India. Women belonging to two ethnic groups vis-a-vis a tribe Munda and a caste Poundrakshatriya (Pod) were purposively selected for the study for their availability in the peri-urban area. The peri-urban area around the city of Kolkata consists of heterogeneous populations of differ…
Spatial patterns of anthropometric variation in India with reference to geographic, climatic, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds
The results suggest geographical clines for the four anthropometric variables and indicate the influence of population structure on the studied variables
Socioeconomic Differentials in Nutritional Status of Children in the States of West Bengal and Assam, India
Malnutrition among children is prevalent in almost all the states in India. This study assesses the extent and causes of malnutrition in two eastern Indian states with similar climates, namely West Bengal and Assam, using data from the National Family Health Survey 1998–99 (NFHS-2). The three indices of malnutrition taken for analysis are weight-for-height (WHZ), height-for-age (HAZ) and weight-for-age (WAZ). These are assumed to depend on birth …
Antiquity, geographic contiguity and genetic affinity among Tibeto-Burman populations of India
Overall, geographic contiguity, punctuated by isolating barriers, is a major influencing factor of genetic affinity among the TB population; contiguous populations within a region show greater genetic relationship than with distant TB populations over a wide geographical area. The results of the microsatellite study also support the history of diverse routes of migration of these populations
Body Mass Index and Chronic Energy Deficiency of Adult Males of Central Indian Populations
Data on body weight, height, and sitting height from 11,496 adult males, age 18-62 years, belonging to 38 different populations of five major social groups (scheduled tribes, scheduled castes, "other backward castes," general castes, and Muslims) of Central India were taken for our analysis to assess the nutritional status of these groups. Cormic index and body mass index (BMI) were computed, and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was carried out am…
Role of individual and household level factors on stunting
There is a close positive link between the nutritional status of pre-school children and the stages of development of the states. Mothers' education and household condition are important influences on children's health status irrespective of the stage of development
Prevalence and Causes of Chronic Energy Deficiency and Obesity in Women of India
We investigate the nutritional status of women in India and its relation to the prevalence of chronic energy deficiency (CED) and obesity. To do this, we have used the data from the Indian National Family Health Survey, 1998-1999, on body mass index (BMI) of ever-married women, ages 15-49 years, along with several socioeconomic factors, such as level of education, religion or caste, occupational status, and standard of living index. The study was…
Nutritional and Health Status of Gond and Kawar Tribal Pre-school Children of Chhattisgarh, India
Present cross sectional study was conducted to assess the nutritional and health status on 379 (180 Gond and 199 Kawar) tribal preschool children of Chhattisgarh, India. The studied children were compared with other tribal and caste preschool children of the same area. Nutrition and health assessment was done through diet survey, nutritional deficiency signs and also by nutritional anthropometric indices such as weight for age, height for age and…
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