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Self Rated Health (SRH) and Nutritional Status of the Female Street Vendors: An Anthropological Stu

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/easms.2018.v01i02.002
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Physical condition depends on health and nutritional status, whereas, health and security of the street vendors not secure. Subsequently, different studies established that street vendors have important function to accomplish the demands of city residents. Self-rated of health most frequently measured for health observations and for nutritional assessment BMI is most important tool. However, the study aimed to find out the self-rated health and nutritional status of the female street vendors of a daily market near Tatanagar Rail Station, Jamshedpur. Therefore, the authors treated self-rated health (SRH) status as the indicators for measuring health status and BMI as tools of evaluating nutritional status of the studied population. For SRH status and evaluating of BMI, authors followed the category and cut off point given World Health Organization (WHO). Data have been collected on SRH followed the WHO health status levels and anthropometric measurement taken by using of anthropometer. Therefore, present study exposed that the nutritional status of the female street vendors very poor. Furthermore, anthropological perspective of the study exhibits that majority of the female street vendors surviving their livelihood with poor health status because most of the female street vendors are illiterate and the majority of the respondents belonging into poor schedule tribal families. Moreover, the study also pointed out that the nutritional status of the female street vendors is better to compared with WHOs study on Indian.......

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