Open AccessMorbidity Among Tribal Under-Five Children of Tea Garden Areas in a Block of Darjeeling District, West Bengal: A Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s) -
Kaushik Ishore,
Sharmistha Bhattacherjee,
Dilip Kumar Das
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/14078.6300
Subject(s) - medicine , west bengal , underweight , tea garden , logistic regression , cross sectional study , epidemiology , under five , environmental health , population , demography , pediatrics , geography , socioeconomics , obesity , archaeology , pathology , overweight , sociology
In the developing world, more than half of infant and childhood mortality is related to childhood diseases particularly- acute respiratory infections (ARI) and diarrhoea. The situation is worse among underprivileged population such as tribals and people living in tea garden areas.