Health care practices among the tea plantation labourers: a sociological study in the tea gardens of North Bengal
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2022-09
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Indian Journal of Law and Justice
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Bandyopadhyay, Rathin
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University of North Bengal
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Majumder, T. B. (2022). Health care practices among the tea plantation labourers: a sociological study in the tea gardens of North Bengal. Indian Journal of Law and Justice, 13(2), 154–170. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4770
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Majumder, Taniya Basu
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In this modern age Health is a matter of concern to all strata and health care is
one of the important aspects of human life. Worldwide mission has been started
by World Health Organization (WHO), along with various governments, private
as well as non-government organization to develop health care service among the
population. But, despite remarkable progress in the field of diagnostics and
curative and preventive health still there are disparities in the people’s health
among the different strata’s or communities across the country on the basis of
socio-economic and socio-demographic construct such as ethnicity, age gender,
religion and caste, social class. Different studies show that, the distribution of
health resources – practitioners, dispensaries, hospitals, equipment, beds, nurses,
ANMs, drugs, etc. – is highly uneven between rural- urban poor - affluent and
developed- backward section of populations in India.
Earlier the health, or lack of health, was merely judged by the attributes of genetic
or biological disorders. But it is the discipline Sociology which has first
established the close link between the ethnic traditions, socioeconomic status and
cultural beliefs of individuals and spread of diseases. Where medical research
might gather statistics on a disease, a sociological perspective of an illness would
provide insight on what external factors caused the demographics that contracted
the disease to become ill. The sociology of health and illness studies the
interaction between society and health. In particular, sociologists examine how
social life impacts morbidity and mortality rates and how morbidity and mortality
rates impact society. This discipline also looks at health and illness in relation to
social institutions such as the family, work, school, and religion as well as
epidemiological statistics on the distribution of illness, the causes of disease and
illness, reasons for seeking particular types of care, and patient compliance and
noncompliance.Therefore, the present paper Health Care Practices of the Tea Plantation
Workers in North Bengal attempt to intensively study the working, living and
health conditions of the tea plantation workers along with the socio- economic
political factors affecting the health situations of workers and the role of the tea
garden management and other stake holders from a holistic perspective as a
socially produced phenomenon.
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13
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154 - 170