Why Tribal Children Look Differently? An Empirical Analysis of Health and Nutritional Status of Tribal Children in Kerala

Gangadharan, K.; Kumar, K Vijay

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“…The prevalence of underweight among the children from Paniya and Kurichiya was assumed to be 63% and 43% with a 20% difference between the groups, based on a previous study. [ 10 , 11 ] The sample size was calculated with significance level 0.05, with statistical power 1-β = 0.8, and with allocation ratio 1:1. The calculated sample size was 97 for each group.…”

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Factors associated with inequality in composite index of anthropometric failure between the Paniya and kurichiya tribal communities in wayanad district of Kerala

Ulahannan

Ravindran

Srinivas

2020

Indian J Public Health

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Background Tribal children in India bear a higher burden of undernutrition when compared to other communities. However, inequality within tribal communities is under-researched. Objectives To examine the factors associated with inequality in undernutrition between Paniya and Kurichiya tribal communities in Wayanad district of Kerala. Methods A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted during August to October 2018 among 314 children aged 2–5 years belonging to Paniya (151) and Kurichiya (163) communities. Participants were selected using multistage cluster sampling. Data were collected using structured interview schedule based on household food insecurity access scale; relevant individual, parental, and household factors were ascertained; child nutritional status was assessed based on anthropometric measurements. The composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) was used as an aggregate indicator of undernutrition. Statistical analysis was done using Chi-square test and univariate and multivariable logistic regression. Results There were significant differences in the prevalence of stunting, underweight, and wasting between Paniya (52.3%, 58.9%, and 25.2%, respectively) and Kurichiya (28.2%, 31.1%, and 12.3%, respectively) tribal children. Based on the CIAF, 66.9% and 41.1% of Paniya and Kurichiya children, respectively, were undernourished. Intratribal difference was observed to exist in all three forms of anthropometric failures simultaneously. Significant factors associated with CIAF were community identity, household food insecurity, and maternal early marriage. Significant factor associated with all three forms of undernutrition was maternal experience of domestic violence. Conclusion This study demonstrates the child nutritional inequality within the tribal communities and indicates the need for more focused policies and programs among vulnerable tribal groups to ensure food security and empowerment of women.

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“…This indicates wide nutritional inequalities among the tribal children in Kerala. [ 2 , 3 ] While the tribal communities in Kerala are a nutritionally vulnerable group, identifying the most vulnerable subgroups among the tribal communities is critical for formulating better-targeted nutritional interventions.…”

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Factors associated with inequality in composite index of anthropometric failure between the Paniya and kurichiya tribal communities in wayanad district of Kerala

Ulahannan

Ravindran

Srinivas

2020

Indian J Public Health

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“…The dropout rates are especially high among most underdeveloped and numerically significant Paniya and Adiyan tribes (Paul, 2014). The factors associated with dropouts are poverty, inadequate nutritious food and illness (Gangadharan & Vinesh-Kumar, 2014; Philip et al, 2015); scattered tribal hamlets away from schools and cultural alienation in school curriculum (Paul, 2014); bilingualism (Sedwal & Kamat, 2008) and inadequate number of teachers (Bagai & Nundy, 2009; Joy & Srihari, 2014). Increased school dropouts of tribal students are associated with the lack of parental support and interest, mother tongue inhibition, lack of school in the community vicinity, teachers’ absenteeism and attitude towards girls’ education (Banerjee, 2013; Menon, 2013; Sundaram & Tendulkar, 2003).…”

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Inclusive Properties of School Interactional Milieu: Implications for Identity Construction and Social Exclusion

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Shanuga²

2018

Contemporary Voice of Dalit

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This study examined the inclusive properties of school interactional milieu that shape social identity and school participation of tribal children. Using phenomenological approach, the data were collected using in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and participant observation in a purposively selected 50 samples from Wayanad district in Kerala. Thematic analysis strategy was used for data analysis. The findings reveal that the structural-, familial-and personal-level factors considerably shape social interactional milieu within schools through complex interactions of its triadic actors such as teachers, tribal students and non-tribal students. The triadic interactions are characterized by social relations salience, namely, friendships, support, integration, conflicts, disconnections, distance, sense of otherness, rejections and dominance. These social relationships salience lead to identity threat perceptions, identification of self with others, and consolidating self and social images consistent with one's own ethnic group. This invokes two potential coping responses, namely, personal meaning making and avoiding distress and anxiety. This avoidance coping relates with increased school abstinence and dropouts, whereas personal meaning making relates with consolidation of ethnic identity in tribal children.

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Why Tribal Children Look Differently? An Empirical Analysis of Health and Nutritional Status of Tribal Children in Kerala

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Factors associated with inequality in composite index of anthropometric failure between the Paniya and kurichiya tribal communities in wayanad district of Kerala

Factors associated with inequality in composite index of anthropometric failure between the Paniya and kurichiya tribal communities in wayanad district of Kerala

Inclusive Properties of School Interactional Milieu: Implications for Identity Construction and Social Exclusion

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