Socio-Demographic Determinants in Urban ‘In-migrants’ of Uttarakhand
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 7
Abstract
Introduction: Rapid urban growth largely manifests itself in the ex-pansion of already crowded squat-ter settlements and slums, placing enormous strain on public re-sources and presenting challenges for local health authorities. To iden-tify the socio-demographic and oth-er related factors of urban in-migrants of districts Dehradun & Haridwar of Uttarakhand. Methods: An observational, cross sectional study was planned among 09 settlements/slums of Urban in-migrants from districts Dehradun & Haridwar of Uttarakhand. Multi-stage & systematic random sam-pling method was chosen for prob-ability sample of 609 households constituting 3485 females of repro-ductive age-group (15-49 years) as study population. Results: Maximum number of in-migrants was from the state of Bihar (33%) and Uttar Pradesh (32.2%). Majority of in-migrants lived in Overcrowded houses (86.53%) and in-adequate ventilation facilities (87.53%). 45.25% of the study popu-lation was illiterate & 58.05% was unskilled labor. 71(78.88%) children in the age group of 10-19 years were employed as unskilled labor. Conclusion: Majority of the mi-grants are poor, illiterate from backward communities. In cities, these floating population refrains from seeking health services espe-cially from organized public & pri-vate sector due to various reasons like poverty, illiteracy, ignorance.
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SD Kandpal, Rakesh Kakkar, Pradeep Aggarwal, Debabrata Roy
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