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Identification of Adolescent Health Status in Kumbakonam Taluk, Tamil Nadu, India: A Geo-Spatial Study

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Abstract Background: In India the total population of adolescent are 177.7 million in 1991, 225.1 million in 2001 and 253.2 million in 2011. Accordingly they are 21.2, 21.9 and 20.9 percent in 1991, 2001 and 2011 respectively. The share of adolescents in Tamil Nadu is 17.2 per cent (2011) to the nation. As a result, the adolescent population are continuously increasing. In contrast their nutritional and health status is not satisfactory. According to National Family Health Survey-2, the high percentages of anaemic adolescents are living mainly in eastern part of the Tamil Nadu. Objective: To identify the spatial pattern of adolescent health status through geospatial mapping in Kumbakonam taluk. Methods: In 2017, 2790 rural adolescents aged 13-19 years in Kumbakonam taluk, Tamil Nadu, India were selected from 93 villages by stratified random sampling procedure. The mean and Z score values was extracted for Gross Calorie Consumed/Day, Calorie Burnt/Day (CBD), Net Calorie Retained/Day (NCRD), Body Mass Index (BMI) and Wealth index (WI) using SPSS. These attributes are added in ArcGIS9.1 software to depict raster maps. These maps are classified, reclassified, using weighted weighted overlay technique. Results: The overlay map identified the spatial pattern of very poor, poor, moderate, good and very good health status of adolescent in rural areas of Kumbakonam taluk. The present study has justified that the adolescent health status is not uniform and varying with place to place in this region. However, 75.0 per cent of the areas adolescent are living in good to very good health status in general.

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Adolescent health, Nutritional health, Health status, GIS

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"Identification of Adolescent Health Status in Kumbakonam Taluk, Tamil Nadu, India: A Geo-Spatial Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.418-424, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810961.pdf

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"Identification of Adolescent Health Status in Kumbakonam Taluk, Tamil Nadu, India: A Geo-Spatial Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp418-424, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810961.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR1810961
Registration ID: 191002
Published In: Volume 5 | Issue 10 | Year October-2018
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Page No: 418-424
Country: Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India .
Area: Science & Technology
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
Publisher: IJ Publication


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