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Jagadish Mahanta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nutritional status of adolescents among tea garden workers
Indian journal of pediatrics, 2007Co-Authors: G. K. Medhi, N. C. Hazarika, Jagadish MahantaAbstract:The study was conducted to evaluate growth and nutritional status using weight and height based indicators among tea garden adolescent boys and girls of Assam aged between 10–18 years. A cross sectional study was carried out in the tea gardens of Dibrugarh district of Assam through house to house visit. Households were selected through two stage sampling design to reach out the adolescents. Height and weight were measured using standard procedures. Body mass index (BMI) was computed from height and weight. Height-for-age below 3rd percentile values of NCHS reference was classified as stunting. BMI-for-age below 5th percentile values of WHO recommended reference was classified as thinness. Total numbers of 605 adolescents (boys-291, girls-314) participated in the study. School enrollment rate was only 59.2%. Prevalence of stunting was 47.4% and 51.9% among boys and girls respectively relative to NCHS reference, which reduced to almost 30% while Indian reference data was used. Prevalence of thinness was higher among boys (59.5%) than girls (41.3%) counterparts. Mean BMI among girls was higher at all ages than boys. Almost half of the adolescents were stunted and most of them were thin. Problem of overweight was seen in less than 0.5% of adolescents. Factors typical to Underdeveloped Society seems to contribute to the moderate to high prevalence of undernutrition among adolescents working in tea gardens.
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Nutritional status of adolescents among tea garden workers
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2007Co-Authors: G. K. Medhi, N. C. Hazarika, Jagadish MahantaAbstract:Objective The study was conducted to evaluate growth and nutritional status using weight and height based indicators among tea garden adolescent boys and girls of Assam aged between 10–18 years. Methods A cross sectional study was carried out in the tea gardens of Dibrugarh district of Assam through house to house visit. Households were selected through two stage sampling design to reach out the adolescents. Height and weight were measured using standard procedures. Body mass index (BMI) was computed from height and weight. Height-for-age below 3^rd percentile values of NCHS reference was classified as stunting. BMI-for-age below 5^th percentile values of WHO recommended reference was classified as thinness. Results Total numbers of 605 adolescents (boys-291, girls-314) participated in the study. School enrollment rate was only 59.2%. Prevalence of stunting was 47.4% and 51.9% among boys and girls respectively relative to NCHS reference, which reduced to almost 30% while Indian reference data was used. Prevalence of thinness was higher among boys (59.5%) than girls (41.3%) counterparts. Mean BMI among girls was higher at all ages than boys. Conclusion Almost half of the adolescents were stunted and most of them were thin. Problem of overweight was seen in less than 0.5% of adolescents. Factors typical to Underdeveloped Society seems to contribute to the moderate to high prevalence of undernutrition among adolescents working in tea gardens.
Richard Edmonds - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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China's Three-Fold Environmental Degradation
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Richard EdmondsAbstract:Contemporary China is undergoing a three-fold environmental degradation: Firstly, common ecological stress for an overpopulated and fast developing Underdeveloped Society, such as land and water shortage, deforestation, and desertification; secondly, complex pollution problems due to the establishment of modern industrial sectors and the widespread of urbanization; and, lastly, various new environmental problems such as climate change, marine pollution and toxic waste treatment as a result of a gigantic and increasingly globalized national economy.
Pat Lauderdale - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology
Theory and Methodology of World Development, 2010Co-Authors: Sing C. Chew, Pat LauderdaleAbstract:This essay examines the sociology of development currently being produced in the developed countries, especially the United States, for export to and use in the Underdeveloped countries. On critical examination, this new sociology of development is found to be empirically invalid when confronted with reality, theoretically inadequate in terms of its own classical social scientific standards, and policy-wise ineffective for pursuing its supposed intentions of promoting the development of the Underdeveloped countries. Furthermore, the inadequacy grows along with the development of the Society that produces it. Like the Underdeveloped Society to which it is applied, this sociology is becoming increasingly Underdeveloped.
G. K. Medhi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nutritional status of adolescents among tea garden workers
Indian journal of pediatrics, 2007Co-Authors: G. K. Medhi, N. C. Hazarika, Jagadish MahantaAbstract:The study was conducted to evaluate growth and nutritional status using weight and height based indicators among tea garden adolescent boys and girls of Assam aged between 10–18 years. A cross sectional study was carried out in the tea gardens of Dibrugarh district of Assam through house to house visit. Households were selected through two stage sampling design to reach out the adolescents. Height and weight were measured using standard procedures. Body mass index (BMI) was computed from height and weight. Height-for-age below 3rd percentile values of NCHS reference was classified as stunting. BMI-for-age below 5th percentile values of WHO recommended reference was classified as thinness. Total numbers of 605 adolescents (boys-291, girls-314) participated in the study. School enrollment rate was only 59.2%. Prevalence of stunting was 47.4% and 51.9% among boys and girls respectively relative to NCHS reference, which reduced to almost 30% while Indian reference data was used. Prevalence of thinness was higher among boys (59.5%) than girls (41.3%) counterparts. Mean BMI among girls was higher at all ages than boys. Almost half of the adolescents were stunted and most of them were thin. Problem of overweight was seen in less than 0.5% of adolescents. Factors typical to Underdeveloped Society seems to contribute to the moderate to high prevalence of undernutrition among adolescents working in tea gardens.
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Nutritional status of adolescents among tea garden workers
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2007Co-Authors: G. K. Medhi, N. C. Hazarika, Jagadish MahantaAbstract:Objective The study was conducted to evaluate growth and nutritional status using weight and height based indicators among tea garden adolescent boys and girls of Assam aged between 10–18 years. Methods A cross sectional study was carried out in the tea gardens of Dibrugarh district of Assam through house to house visit. Households were selected through two stage sampling design to reach out the adolescents. Height and weight were measured using standard procedures. Body mass index (BMI) was computed from height and weight. Height-for-age below 3^rd percentile values of NCHS reference was classified as stunting. BMI-for-age below 5^th percentile values of WHO recommended reference was classified as thinness. Results Total numbers of 605 adolescents (boys-291, girls-314) participated in the study. School enrollment rate was only 59.2%. Prevalence of stunting was 47.4% and 51.9% among boys and girls respectively relative to NCHS reference, which reduced to almost 30% while Indian reference data was used. Prevalence of thinness was higher among boys (59.5%) than girls (41.3%) counterparts. Mean BMI among girls was higher at all ages than boys. Conclusion Almost half of the adolescents were stunted and most of them were thin. Problem of overweight was seen in less than 0.5% of adolescents. Factors typical to Underdeveloped Society seems to contribute to the moderate to high prevalence of undernutrition among adolescents working in tea gardens.
Sing C. Chew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology
Theory and Methodology of World Development, 2010Co-Authors: Sing C. Chew, Pat LauderdaleAbstract:This essay examines the sociology of development currently being produced in the developed countries, especially the United States, for export to and use in the Underdeveloped countries. On critical examination, this new sociology of development is found to be empirically invalid when confronted with reality, theoretically inadequate in terms of its own classical social scientific standards, and policy-wise ineffective for pursuing its supposed intentions of promoting the development of the Underdeveloped countries. Furthermore, the inadequacy grows along with the development of the Society that produces it. Like the Underdeveloped Society to which it is applied, this sociology is becoming increasingly Underdeveloped.
