An Assessment of Health Status and Standard of Living of Rag Pickers in Ahmedabad Urban Area
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: We are in era of “Swatch Bharat Mission” and emphasized to keep clean our surroundings. The Rag pickers are the main pillars of it but the irony of present times is; they are highly neglected. Aims and Objectives: 1. To study socio demographic profile of rag pickers.2.To assess the health status of rag pickers. 3. To study standard of living of rag picker families. 4. To evaluate utilization of health services. Method: The study design adopted for present study is cross sectional study. The study population included rag pickers residing in Bhavaninagar and Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad. The sample size was 100 which were selected by Purposive sampling. The study period spanned from August 2016 to September 2016. The statistical analysis was done using appropriate software. The exclusion criteria for the current study is non consenting family members, closed houses, houses in which no adult family member was there to answer. Results: Out of total 119 rag pickers, 78% were female. 34.45% of rag pickers were of 40 to 49 years age group.48% rag pickers was illiterate. As oral tobacco consumption (58.3%) was higher among male while female were used to have snuffing (28%).68.37% rag pickers were hypertensive. Rag- pickers were mostly suffering from body ache (34%) and also suffered from backache (20%), dizziness (20%) and skin allergy (19%).The rag pickers got 8 kg/day of waste on an average. Conclusion: Female predominance was seen in rag picking. Illiteracy rate was higher than urban population. Living condition of rag pickers was poor and some of them did not have access to basic amenities like toilet and sufficient safe drinking water supply and separate bathing facilities.
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Abhishek Somani, Sonal Parikh, Niyati Zaveri, Bhavesh Prajapati, D. V. Bala
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