Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Family Planning among the Deoris of Assam

Dr. Surjya Chutia

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Family planning means Planned Parenthood. The basic aim of family planning is to control birth rate by changing the attitude of people towards the adoption of various scientific birth control measures and to have children by choice not by chance. The inherent philosophy of family planning is to have desired family size by proper spacing of births through the use of contraceptive devises. Assam is the homeland of various tribal communities, each having its own cultural heritage. The Deoris are one of the plains Schedule Tribes of Assam who are affiliated to the Indo– Mongoloid group. As per the 2011 census the total Deori population in Assam is 43,750 which constitute 1.13% of the total tribal population of the state. The tribal people are generally living close to nature and they are influenced more by traditional socio–cultural and environmental dimensions in their health practices. In this paper an attempt has been made to assess the associations among the knowledge of, attitude to and practice of family planning among the Deoris of Assam.

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FAMILY PLANNING AMONG THE DEORIS OF ASSAM, Dr. Surjya Chutia INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-8 | August-2019

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