Assessment of Health Perception of School Going Girls in West Bengal, India
Rama Das
Rashtraguru Surendranath College, Kolkata, WB, India.
Anannya Chakraborty *
Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
S. K. Acharya
BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia, WB, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present study assessed perception, practices and impact, resultant to a process of seamless exposure to cognitive, affectional and actionable pursuits to health, nutrition and hygiene related stimuli,. The study was conducted in Barrackpore-II block of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India. One hundred and ninety four (194) School going teenage girls aged between 10-19 years were randomly selected for the study. The study reveals that the health perception of an individual depends on the education, mother’s education, family income and diet of that concerned person.
Keywords: Education, health perception, income, diet