Morbidity status of Lodha tribal women in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha

The study was carried out on Lodha women in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha to know their morbidity pattern. The Lodha women belonged to 18-45 years of age group. The questionnaire cum interview method was used for data collection. The collected data were analysed through SPSS and MSTAT-C software. The study showed that the socio-economic status was very low and the common health problems found to be statistically significant. Hence it may be inferred that the parameters common cold, fever, indigestion, vomiting, pale conjunctiva, pale coated tongue, head reeling, diarrhoea, loss of appetite and pyorrhea; the common health problems were low among the tribal women. Most of the tribal women were suffering from various gynaecological problems.