Health Status of Primitive Tribal Groups Related Issues

Health Status of  Primitive Tribal Groups

Related Issues

Health Status of  Primitive Tribal Groups

Related Issues

The need for proper health care systems in the tribal areas and the importance of the health  status of PTGs was felt because as in the general society, the status of PTGs was lower than that of the others.  The PTGs lot may seem to be better than that of the other l plain tribe counterparts .A comprehensive study on the health status of  PTGs is needed due to the following. PTGs live in the interior hill tract villages did not have proper communication and health facilities. Even after sixty five years of independence, many of the problem confronting these unfortunate sections. To ameliorate the conditions of these vulnerable sections, several nutrition and health programmes have been implemented to relieve them from the clutches of morbidity, mortality and anemic conditions of the PTGs. In spite of six decades of planned development it is still believed that their health status and food habits  of PTGs have not improved. Keeping all these aspects in  this study an attempt has been made to enquire into the health status of the PTGs. This micro level study will be highly useful to understand the health status of PTGs. Also, towards filling up the gaps in knowledge in relation to the urgent needs to health studies, an attempt is made to study the health status of PTGs in the North Coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. Since a handful of studies on reproductive health have been carried out on the tribes of Andhra Pradesh, especially the Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) in North Coastal districts like Konda Savara, Gadaba and Porja tribe on which no such work has been reported so far, the present work has been taken up to evaluate the current health status of the selected PTGs Konda Savara, Gadaba and Porja. In this background, the presented study is carried out to understand the total health status of selected PTGs. Sundara Rao Mopidevi was worked as the Professor in Economics in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530 003, Andhra Pradesh. Currently he is doing Senior Research Fellowship  awarded by ICSSR, at Center For Economic and Social Studies CESS), Hyderabad. He has specialized in International Economics, Indian Economic Policies, Micro and Macro Theory and Tribal Economics. He is life member of Indian Economic Association and   in Andhra Pradesh Economic Association. He taught to Post Graduate Students of  Economics  for the last 36 years. He had produced 33 Ph.D works and fourteen  M.Phil studies. He conducted two National Seminars on development issues of the Tribal Economy. The author has undertaken commendable research work on the different issues relating to the socio-demographic, economic and living conditions of different tribes in the interior tribal areas. He had  focused upon the prevailing socio-economic problems in the economy of Eastern Ghats with special reference to the Sub-Plan areas of the North Coastal Districts of Andhra Pradesh.  He had covered many of the contemporary issues and problems relating to the interior rural and tribal society. His research interest includes poverty, food and nutrition, livelihood, human development and tribal economy.