Influence of Socio-Economic Environment on Tribal Health

Abstract

Environment is the surroundings of us. It includes physical, biological and man-made elements which are interlinked individually as well as collectively. Man made elements are various cultural elements like – economic, social, political etc. For our survival each and every environmental factors have important role. Tribes are the marginalized and vulnerable section of the society. They are technologically, economically and culturally backward due to their isolated nature. This backwardness hampers their livelihood conditions, health conditions and sustainability. In this paper the impacts of various socio-economic factors of environment like – education, income etc. as well as domestic environmental factors like – sanitation, garbage disposal etc. on tribal health have been analyzed in some tribal villages of Ausgram – II block in East Burdwan district, West Bengal. Problems of various diseases have been pointed out and some remedial measures have been also suggested to achieve sustainable living environment. This work is mainly based in primary data. Simple statistical and cartographic techniques have been applied to prepare it.