Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

R. Premalatha ¹, S. Thangamayan ¹, S. Sudha ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Economics, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai, IN

Abstract

The traditional values were losing importance and new thinking new values were adding in society. Men and women will be treating equal in modern era. The new health treatment and facilities were opened to serve village people’s health sector. All individuals were given equal opportunity in society. The village people’s way of life, structure of the family has been changed because of impact of liberalization privatization and globalization in our country. The family has also been influenced by the effects of Globalization. Though it is the fact that processes like-Industrialization and Modernization have influences the traditional structure of family in the early years, but the changes have been rapid in the recent years on the Indian rural society, which has also passed through Globalization and Information. The data for this paper is obtained from the Household questionnaire, which contains information, related to age, sex, marital status, education, occupation and relationship to the head of the household for all usual residents as well as for the visitors who slept last night in the house. The family has been and continues to be one of the most important elements in the fabric of Indian society. The bond that ties the individual to his family, the range of the influence and authority that the family exercises make the family in India not merely an institutional structure of our society, but accord give it a deep value. The Indian family is subjected to the effects of changes that have been taking place in the economic, political, social and cultural spheres of the society.

Keywords

Family Structure, Change in Culture, Impact of Society.

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S. Thangamayan ¹, R. Premalatha ¹, S. N. Sugumar ¹, S. Chandrachud ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Economics, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, (Deemed to be University) Chennai, IN

Abstract

Employment has featured as an important item in the development agenda in India. Approaches to the subject have, however, varied in different periods during the last over 50 years. In the initial years of development planning, unemployment was not expected to emerge as a major problem. Yet care was taken to see that employment of a reasonable magnitude is generated in the development process to productively employ the growing labour force. A reasonably high rate of economic growth combined with an emphasis on labour intensive sectors like the small scale industry was envisaged to achieve this goal.

To analyze the trend and to estimate the growth rates of the employment in different organized sectors of India, simple linear regression model and semi-log linear regression model have been fitted respectively to the data on the organized sector for the periods 1990-91 to 2009-10. The estimated value of the regression co-efficient, their standard error and other important results are given. Employment in mining and quarrying sector increased by 0.072 lakh persons per year. The manufacturing sector’s employment increased by 0.389 lakh persons annually.

Keywords

Employment, Economic Development, Manufacturing Sector.

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B. Chithirairajan ¹, S. Thangamayan ¹, N. Manivannan ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Economics, VELS Universty (Deemed to be University), Pallavaram, Chennai, IN
2 Department of Commerce, VELS Universty (Deemed to be University), Pallavaram, Chennai, IN

Abstract

This paper major aim to address the ailments of women beedi labourers in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu state. Women empowerment is a smart key to develop their any nation according to women skill and capacity. Now-a-days the plenty of people are living under below poverty line because they are not getting a minimum employment facilities in their life. Further, majority of the people are depends on indoor jobs such as match box works, candle works, and beedi works, especially, women people are dominated and working under indoor jobs than that of men. Beedi works is one of the informal or unorganized sectors in India. It plays a vital role for improving economic development like the beedi work provides employment facilities, improving their living conditions, reduce poverty also. Health is one of the major factors and this present research directly to measure the ill health effects of beedi rolling workers. The measurement of ill health effects in terms of the workers affected by headache, stomach pain, eye problems, skin pain and others. In view these circulstances, the research is based on ailments of beedi workers in Tamil Nadu. The main aim of this paper is to find out the ailments of women beedi workers among well-off households and poorer households in the study region. By this study has used primary data survey method and totally 51 sample respondents are taken from two villages like Alangulam and Sankarnagar in selected Alangulam block of selected district. As a result found that, the women of poorer household respondents have mostly affected such health problems like head ache, eye problems and skin problems as compared to that of women well-off household in selected area.

Keywords

Ailments, Informal Sector, Women Health Problems, Employment Opportunity, Well-off Households, Poorer Households.

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