Anthropometry and Haemoglobin Range among Rural Women in Davanager District of Karnataka

Abstract

The rural women play a vital role in agricultural economic development since recent past, so they perform so many activities in their daily work, to accomplish those activities consumes lot of energy in terms of calories, for that women’s need good health. The health can be assessed by their Anthropometry and haemoglobin levels. The present study on socio-economic characteristics, food habits and dietary intake of rural women was conducted in selected villages of Davanager district in Karnataka state. The selected villages were Nittur of Harihar taluk and Kulambi of Honnalli taluk during the year 2020-21. Sixty each women from Nittur and Kulambi villages were selected randomly for the study, thus making a total sample of 120 respondents.This paper focussed on Anthropometry and haemoglobin range among rural women. The prime objectives of the present study were to examine the associations between the haemoglobin level and various anthropometric indices and to predict low and normal haemoglobin levels using combined indices. Furthermore, we examined differences in the haemoglobin level and anthropometric indices between rural women. Since the rural women belong to low socio-economic group in general, the reasons for prevalence of under nutrition could be due to the fact that women are over exhausted by the combination of reproductive demands and long term intake of lower amounts of food. Among respondents 84 per cent of them were normal and 16 per cent of them were overweight.