Health Culture and Health Seeking Behaviour Among The Semi-nomadic Lohar-Gadiyas of Malthon Town of Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5222720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ankur Yadav (0009-0006-3122-720X, Department of Anthropology, Dr. Harisingh Gour University , Sagar 470 003, Madhya Pradesh, India), A N Sharma (Department of Anthropology, Dr. Harisingh Gour University , Sagar 470 003, Madhya Pradesh, India), Abhinav Sharma (0000-0002-2008-0998, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 431-435 |
| Publication date | 2002-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0970-9274 • E-ISSN: 2456-6608 |
| Publisher | Kamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09709274.2002.11905581 |
| OpenAlex | W2209982051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Lohar-Gadiya of Malthon town are a backward group of people who move periodically between the two fixed place in the certain months of years with their bullock carts; and engaged themselves in blacksmith work by indigenous techniques. The present paper is based on the interview of 127 households, using structured schedule by random sampling and semi-participant method. Objective of the present study is to assess the health culture and health seeking behaviour among seminomadic Lohar-Gadiya of Malthon town of Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh. It may be concluded that the health culture and health seeking behaviour among them is highly influenced with urban communities, but for few disease their concept are very poor which is to be uplifted., by medical officer’s by organizing medical camps and visiting their houses etc
Archaeology · Environmental health · Geography · Health services · Health worker · Indigenous · Management · Officer · Population · Schedule · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Diverse Scientific Research Studies · Global Health and Epidemiology · Medicine
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |