A Study on the Utilization of Children’s Health Care Services by the People in Usilampatti Taluk

Abstract

India, with 1.21 billion of population is the words second most popular country after china. An estimated 26 millions of children are born every year. It is alarming that with an absolute increase in population of about 181 million in the population during the census 2001 and 2011, there is a reduction of 5.05 million in the child population aged 0-6 years during the same period. According to 2011 census, the total number of children aged 0-6 years is 158.79 million which is reduced by 3.1 percent compared to the child population in 2001 census. According to the data available the share of children of the age group 0-6 years to the total population is 13.1 percent 2011.