Volume : 5, Issue : 12, December - 2016

AN ESSENTIAL HEALTH CARE OF KONDA REDDI TRIBE

Appalanaidu Pappala

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The present paper deals with general health care among Konda Reddi, particularly vulnerable tribal group of Polavaram mandal in the West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. It also inform to the prevalence of different diseases and health problems such as chronic, seasonal, infectious and common. This data obtained from the interviews with the medical personnel, and group discussions with the Konda Reddis during the last one year period prior to the date of survey, the type of treatment sought for the problems, their general preference for the available health care services, utilization of government health care facility during the last six months, client satisfaction and the reasons for not utilizing the primary health care centre (PHC). The overall results reveal that these tribal people have their own traditional practices for health care. Still they rely on some home remedies for curing many health problems.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:&#10;150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>