The nutritional status and socio-demographic profile of tribal people is an important issue in
India due to their marginalization from main stream population with respect to varied …

Screening Maternal Acute Malnutrition Using Adult Mid-Upper... : Indian Journal of Community
Medicine Screening Maternal Acute Malnutrition Using Adult Mid-Upper Arm Circumference in …

Introduction: Oraon tribes of India have high levels of undernutrition. Dietary diversification is
one of the food-based interventions to ameliorate malnutrition. Objectives: This study …

Nutritional deprivation among Indian tribals: A cause for concern Page 1 5
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS 18 (2): 5–16. ISSN 1408-032X © Slovene …

Abstract Tribes comprise 8.61% of the Indian population as per the 2011 Census and
occupy second place in the indigenous population of the world. Undernutrition is a …

Odisha is one of the most backward states in India. Naturally its reflection will be felt in the
tribal communities also. There exists scanty information of the prevalence of under-nutrition …

The Oraon and the Sarak are two distinct ethnic groups with respect to their own religion,
culture, language, and food habits, and they live in similar environmental conditions in …

The term Oraons comes from the Oraon word of Chota Nagpur Plateau “to roam” which
means vagabond (Ali and Basak, 2018). According to 2011 census, the total population of …

Occupational health deals with diseases or injuries caused due to work. Different types of
work cause different types of ill‐effect on health and may cause changes in health traits; …

A cross-sectional study undertaken in three endogamous populations, viz. Dhimal, Mech
and Rajbanshi reveal some significant results of high prevalence of undernutrition and poor …