Health Status of Paddy Cultivator’s Child: Initial Focus on Cuddalore District

Abstract

Health is an important fundamental of wellbeing. The improvement in health is an important for economic growth to any country. In India major factors are responsible for worsening the health condition. The 30 per cent of infants are born under the average weight of 2.5 Kg in the country. Health is influenced by various factors such as income of the household, education, food, housing, basic sanitation, social practices, measures to control environmental hazards and communicable diseases. Indian just does not have enough food to eat which is a basic prerequisite for staying healthy. Our per capita consumption of cereals and pulses has dropped between 1991 and 2003 form 510 gram per day to 440 gram per day. Because of even now also the economic conditions of farmers were questioned especially in Tamilnadu among paddy cultivators. By increasing anemia, this reduction makes its reflection on children and women for recent years. The multistage random sampling method used to get 60 respondents from the study area and get data with the help of pre-tested interview schedule. The study reveals that the majority of the respondents (51.67 per cent) were affected by the viral fever due to environment pollution and 18 respondents (30.00 per cent) were affected by anemia because of malnutrition food habit. Generally the care and awareness among mothers will be considered as an important thing to protect or improve the health status of child.