Health Status of the Women of the Coastal Region of South 24 Parganas: A Field Survey

The present study highlights the Health Status of the Women of the Coastal region of South 24 Parganas, India. The study made an effort to organize a two phased program of the health assessment and the health awareness so that the respondents along with the knowledge of their health status, being determined by the Medical Professional will also get an opportunity to imbibe the heath awareness in them through the consortium of experts like Nutritionist, and Psycho Analyst to imbibe in them on good health habits through the low-cost nutritional diet and through behavioral analysis of the respondents being effected by poor nutritional condition. Though the respondents hail from the reserved category and /or economically weaker families, their eagerness towards higher education encouraged the researcher to observe the level of health and nutritional awareness in them while the urge for education override all. The field survey done under the ICSSR Senior Fellowship Scheme is entailed through the analysis of Government documents including 2011 census report National Family Health Survey Report 4 (NFHS 4 and NFHS 5) and the District Human Development Report 2009. Also papers and articles have been evaluated as a guide to the present research. The data collection on the educated women communities are done in the Diamond Harbour Women University and the evaluation of the data is done by a team of medical practitioner, Nutritionist and Psycho Analyst while information on personal and impersonal survey is collected through questionnaire and direct interaction followed by random survey. Health and the nutritional status of the women, has always been a strategic issue to a traditional country like India, where women are always looked up as a second grade citizen. The field survey arrangement required medical practitioners to be involved on an as-needed basis in order to investigate noteworthy instances of a unique kind. The primary objective of the study is to establish a link between women's nutritional status and the socio-economic status of their families the data gathering was done after student-to-student interaction in a classroom setting, it was a novel strategy.