A STUDY ON HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF RURAL WOMEN IN COIMBATORE

Objectives: To determine the health status and health seeking behavior of rural women. The researcher considered only the households, which had children below 5 years of age as sample and the same was confirmed by going through the Civil Registration Report. It has been adopted to analyze the maternity and child health practices. Materials and methods: Thus in total, 300 respondents are selected as sample from Coimbatore. Results: A study of data in the health status and health seeking behaviour of the rural women respondents. It could be noted that out of the total 300 respondents, 16.67 per cent of them belong to the forward caste and 24.00 per cent of them belong to Backward Caste. In this study, the Most Backward Caste constitutes 41.33 per cent of the respondents and 18.00 per cent of them constitute Scheduled Caste.