BACKGROUND Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder prevalent in tribal regions of India. SCD can increase complications during pregnancy and in turn negatively influence pregnancy outcomes. This study reports the analysis of tribal maternal admissions in the community-based hospital of SEWA Rural (Kasturba Maternity Hospital) in Jhagadia block, Gujarat. The objective of the stu...

AIM: To study the Uterine Rupture during pregnancy, its incidence, risk factors, maternal and fetal outcome in tertiary level care Bastar, Chattisgarh {Late Baliram kashyp Memorial Medical College, Jagdalpur, Bastar, Chattisgarh} Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to study Rupture Uterus during pregnancy its incidence, risk factors, maternal and fetal outcome in tertiary level c...

objective: to examine the relationship between socioeconomic factors affecting contraceptive use among tribal women of bangladesh with focusing on son preference over daughter. materials and methods: the study used data gathered through a cross sectional survey on four tribal communities resided in the rangamati hill district of the chittagong hill tracts, bangladesh. a multistage random sampli...

or hunting may be jointly organized, but collective life is based on collective decisions and not on formal roles and carefully differentiated functions. A &dquo;tribe&dquo; is a larger political community involving more than one residential unit. Walter limits the use of the term &dquo;tribe&dquo; strictly to what others have regarded as only one kind of tribal society-the stateless tribal soc...

  To identify the hurdles that 6 to 12-year-old children in rural and tribal areas face in going to school and ways of removing them a large sample of administrators, teachers, and students in the rural and tribal areas of Azerbaijan provinces was interviewed and given questionnaires with assumed validity and reliability of 0.70 through test-retest. Results show that three cultural, one p...

gabbeh is one type of different types of hand-woven carpets of qashqaei tribes (south and center of iran) which is woven by the women of these tribes. in fact this hand-woven rug is kind of carpet woven to be slef-consumed which was woven from old times with creative and subjective patterns in a two dimensional and abstract format. the patterns are taken from the nature and environment where th...

Ho-Chunk, Inc. is a successful tribal economic development corporation. It is wholly owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The company has won several national awards for excellence in tribal economic development. Due to these awards, over 30 tribes have visited Winnebago. Because of these visits and the system of internal innovation at Ho-Chunk, Inc. a blue print of what a Tribe needs to d...

Blood revenge is one of the most commonly cited causes of violence and warfare in tribal societies, yet it is largely ignored in recent anthropological theories of primitive warfare. A theory of tribal violence is presented showing how homicide, revenge, kinship obligations, and warfare are linked and why reproductive variables must be included in explanations of tribal violence and warfare. St...

Tribals constitute a major chunk of the total population of India. Out of a total 475 tribal groups in India, about 75 are primitive tribes. Kutia Kondhs of Orissa state are one of the most primitive tribal people of the country. A total of 2488 children aged 6-15 years belonging to 15 major tribes were screened for ABO and Rhesus (D) blood groups at random from various Ashram schools in eight ...

Dominance of chemical agriculture from last few decades has deteriorated the soil health and created problem of disposal of agricultural waste in rural areas. It is important to maintain environmental and agricultural sustainability without reducing productivity. Vermiculture technology has been considered as a sound and viable option to regenerate the soil health through recycling the agricult...