Swasthya Portal: A Boon for Tribal's Health in India | Chapter 02 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 7

     

Health is among the most significant markers of the quality of a person's life. Due to their vulnerability and deprivation, tribal inhabitants face a multitude of difficulties; one of the most important aspects contributing to their vulnerability and deprivation is their health. Tribal health has been the focus of discussion for a very long time. In an attempt to address the health concerns these tribes suffer, the Indian government developed the “SWASTHYA” gateway, which provides a number of paybacks. In this paper, authors have focused on the “SWASTHYA” portal’s data analysis and its benefit for the tribal communities in different states.  As a result, there is a pressing need to investigate and assess the impact of NGOs’ initiatives on tribal health. In this sense, the author's personnel experiences working on tribal health issues during the last few years are being reflected.

 

Author(s) Details :-

 

Acharya Balkrishna
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India and University of Patanjali, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Garima Yadav
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Gunjan Sharma
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Neelam Rawat Dabhade
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Nidhi Sharma
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Deepika Srivastava
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Vedpriya Arya
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India and University of Patanjali, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Please see the book here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rudhr/v7/7597B

Swasthya Portal: A Boon for Tribal's Health in India | Chapter 2 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 7

 

Health is among the most significant markers of the quality of a person's life. Due to their vulnerability and deprivation, tribal inhabitants face a multitude of difficulties; one of the most important aspects contributing to their vulnerability and deprivation is their health. Tribal health has been the focus of discussion for a very long time. In an attempt to address the health concerns these tribes suffer, the Indian government developed the “SWASTHYA” gateway, which provides a number of paybacks. In this paper, authors have focused on the “SWASTHYA” portal’s data analysis and its benefit for the tribal communities in different states.  As a result, there is a pressing need to investigate and assess the impact of NGOs’ initiatives on tribal health. In this sense, the author's personnel experiences working on tribal health issues during the last few years are being reflected.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Acharya Balkrishna
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India and University of Patanjali, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

 

Garima Yadav
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

 

Gunjan Sharma
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

 

Neelam Rawat Dabhade
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

 

Nidhi Sharma
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

 

Deepika Srivastava
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

Vedpriya Arya
Patanjali Herbal Research Department, Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India and University of Patanjali, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar-249405, Uttarakhand, India.

 

Please See the book here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rudhr/v7/7597B

Increasing Health Burden Due to Rapid Lifestyle Changes among the Tribal Communities of India | Chapter 3 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 1

Recent decades have experienced rapid socio-economic, demographic, epidemiological and nutritional transitions resulting in changes in dietary habits, nutritional status, adiposity-related chronic diseases and lifestyle patterns in many developing countries [1-5]. Tribal groups of India in this context present a very disheartening picture. Conventionally, studies related to health issues among tribal populations have shown a high prevalence of undernutrition. However, with the changes in lifestyles, these tribal groups have been inflicted with various cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in different proportions.

Since the total Scheduled Tribe population of India constitutes about 8.6 per cent of the total population of the country [6] and a major numerical chunk, it is worth investigating the changing perspectives of health among the tribes of India in the context of lifestyle diseases in India.

Precisely for this reason the present paper aims to understand the association of age, sex and Body Mass Index (BMI) with the different metabolic health risk factors using data from six tribes in the Birbhum district of West Bengal and Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India. Results of the present study indicate that young tribal males are showing an increasing tendency towards growing body weight, against the traditional wisdom, which in turn has been found to be strongly associated with metabolic risk factors. Tribal females are in more danger of developing metabolic risks at lower BMI, irrespective of age, clearly indicating an increasing tendency towards a double burden of disease among the Indian tribal populations. Therefore, the Indication of an increasing tendency towards a double burden of disease among the Indian tribal populations with some risk factors associated with undernutrition and better nutrition needs to be addressed immediately before the situation becomes too alarming.

Author(s) Details:

Gautam Kumar Kshatriya,
Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, 110007, India.

Tanni Chakraborty,
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KISS Campus, Bhubaneswar 751024, India.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RUDHR-V1/article/view/13211