Study of Reproductive and Child Health Among the Loi of Manipur

This book is an attempt to deal with the reproductive and child health among the Loi, an indigenous schedule caste population of Manipur, India with a view to understanding how certain indicators of the reproductive and child health are associated with demographic, biological and socio-economic variables in both rural and urban areas. This book highlights differences of maternal health indicators like reproductive wastage,maternal BMI,awareness of ANC, knowledge of FP,maternal morbidity of rural and urban are mainly due to the differences in socio-economic conditions especially in terms of education and economic condition. The study focus on nutritional status of children in terms of BMI. It also deals about the gender differences on child immunizations.