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...

The manuscript mainly deals with the use of certain medicinal plants as folklore medicine by tribal communities of Hathras district. These plants are abundant everywhere at Hathras. The present study highlighted the use of 20 plants species as folklore medicine providing details about the plants, preparation of drugs and their uses as folklore medicine by the ethnic groups.

This paper examines the son preference and contraceptive practice among tribal groups in rural south India. Parents’ preferences for the sex of their children have constituted an important theme in population and social research over the past three decades. Data were collected from a household survey of 398 currently married women of reproductive age group (15-49) from four taluks in the Nilgir...

Nationalism demands that rulers and ruled hail from the same ethnic background. The gradual adoption of this principle of legitimate statehood has transformed the shape of the political world over the past 2oo years and has provided the ideological motivation for an increasing number of wars fought in the modern era. Before the age of nationalism set in at the end of the eighteenth century, ind...

In Surkhandarya region, toponyms related to the ethnic composition of population, including place names in people, tribes and clans, ethnonyms associated with human names, as well certain tribal are briefly described.

BACKGROUND Despite high prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer in Indian women, no study has been done in tribal populations whose socio-sexual lifestyle is different. Therefore, HPV screening has been carried out in pre-adolescent, adolescent and young adult tribal girls using self-collected urine samples. METHODS 20-35 ml self-collected midstream urine sample...

A unique, nontraditional occupational therapy role focusing on primary prevention, community health promotion, and enhancement for a nonpatient population is examined. The purpose of this ongoing consultancy project was to develop a series of life skills and prevocational programs for an ethnic population of native Americans from elementary school through high school and post-secondary adulthoo...

We have inherited a somewhat fuzzy usage of the term ‘tribe’ and ‘tribal’ from early British anthropology. ‘Tribe’ was often used in a rather derogatory manner for relatively small ethnic groups who lived as ‘underdeveloped’ (formerly called ‘primitive’ or even ‘savage’) minorities, far from the majorities’ cultural and social mainstream. No wonder that the term ‘tribe’ became obsolete in many ...

BACKGROUND To study the prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence in tribal women and to assess the treatment seeking behavior of affected women. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Khardi, a tribal village, selected by random sampling, in Thane district, Maharashtra, India during the period October 2010 to January 2011. All women aged 20 years and above wer...