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Health Status Evaluation of Adolescent Girls by Rohrer Index
Kankana De*
Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India
- *Corresponding Author:
- Kankana De
Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University
West Bengal, India
Tel: +919474714273
E-mail: dekankana@gmail.com
Received date: December 13, 2016; Accepted date: February 04, 2017; Published date: February 24, 2017
Citation: Kankana D (2017) Health Status Evaluation of Adolescent Girls by Rohrer Index. J Community Med Health Educ 7:508. doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000508
Copyright: © 2017 Kankana D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Poor nutritional status during adolescence is an important determinant of health outcomes found more than half of the adolescents were thin but only 2% were overweight. One tenth of adolescent girls are part of Indian population. Under-nutrition among these girls is associated with reduced lean body mass, lack of muscular strength and decreased work capacity 47% adolescent girls are found stunted. This study is to evaluate health status of adolescent girls of 10-19 years who belongs Tosalboni block of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal Different anthropometric data are collected by anthropometric tools height, weight and different circumferences. A total of 21.1% girls in high range 418 girls belong to healthy range 178 girls are from unhealthy range based on RI range. Rohrer index has significant relation with body mass index, 30% girls of post-menarcheal girls of Hoogly belongs to low health status 40.8% of girls are very low health status. To improve health status adolescent girls need adequate nutrition, need counseling for health hygiene.
