Browsing by Author "Kalosona Paul"

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    Burden of Disability in India (1881–2011)
    (Chitkara University Publications, 2015-10-05) Kalosona Paul; Shrestha Saha
    It is estimated that roughly in the world 10 percent or 650 million people live with disability while India consists of 26.8 million (Census 2011) & 58th round of National s ample survey (N ss), 2002 (18.5million) indicates that around 2 percent of country’s population suffers from disability. the overreaching aim of this paper is to estimate the prevalence of disability with its type and assess the changes of proportionate disabled population during pre-independence and post-independence period. the paper essentially explains the manifold increase in the prevalence of disability in post-independence period due to the adaption of new definition. to analyze the prevalence of disability the standardized Index of Diversity (s ID) which was dev eloped by lieberson (1969) and Rowland (2003) and further given in K.M. Ponnapalli and F.Ram (2010). Paper outcome be said that blindness which continues fluctuated from the colonial periods in India. Concentration of disabled females is more with speech and, hearing whereas males' movement and mental disabilities. s IDD index values indicates that all the states and districts have experienced a rising seeing disability and movement disability, but 2011 reveal that prevalence of hearing and movement disability gradually growing. this index reveals that North-east states like sikkim; Nagaland & Manipur districts are disabled population are direct effect on curvature of economic. However, there is a need for the much-detailed investigation of the demography of disability which could provide insights into the problem and suggest the efforts that are needed to tackle the issue.
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    Progress in Demographic and Other Factors and Its Influence on Nutritional Status of Mothers and Children in India
    (Chitkara University Publications, 2016-04-04) Rajaram Yadav; Kalosona Paul; Shrestha Saha
    It is well known that child nutrition is affected by many factors like socio-cultural, economic and demographic, etc. Studies found that maternal education, wealth index, and ethnicity have an influence on child nutrition. In this paper, comparative study of malnutrition among children and mothers between 1992-93 and 2005-06 has been done. Objective: The main objective of the paper is to study how progress in demographic and other socioeconomic factors influence nutritional status of mother and children. Data and Methods: First round (1992-93) and third round (2005-06) of National Family Health Survey has been used to reach the objective of the study. To show the progress in nutritional status, percentage change in prevalence of malnutrition in different background characteristics from 1992-93 to 2005-06 has been calculated. To show the progress in different background characteristics and its effect on child malnutrition decomposition analysis has been done. Result: Almost all variable are significantly associated with child malnutrition thus more contribution of any variable in bringing the change in prevalence of malnutrition shows the more progress in that variable from 1992-93 to 2005- 06. The decomposition analysis clearly shows that the condition of mother’s education and timing to initiate breastfeeding are found to be contributing significantly to the reduction of underweight among children between 1992- 93 and 2005-06. Conclusion: This study shows that improvement in mother’s education contributed the most in improving the nutritional status of children. Thus by increasing the educational in female under-nutrition can be reduced to a larger extent.