Knowledge of women about health aspects: A sociological analysis

Pages: 15-19
Harvinder Kaur, Vinod Kumari and Subhash Chander (Department of Sociology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

Health is a main determinant of human development as it has socio-economic relationship with the quality of life. The right of health is the most basic of all human rights. The study was conducted in two villages of Fatehabad district of Haryana State through simple random sampling technique. Data were collected through interview schedule and analyzed with suitable statistical techniques. Majority of women belonged to young age group (42.5%), general caste (50.00%), joint family (50.8%), medium size family (56.7%) and were married (99.2%) and educated up to high school (38.3%). Specific knowledge and nutritional deficiency knowledge was found moderate to low. There was significant impact of various socio- economic factors on health status of rural women. The findings pointed out that there is urgent need to educate women about their own health and increase their knowledge about specific and nutritional deficiencies.