European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

In India, over 104 million people belong to the tribal community. They are over 705 different communities with divergent socio-cultural and way of life having distinctive features in Indian society. There are various constitutional measures for the protection and development of the tribal communities as ages, even though their conditions are still in jeopardy. Poverty and deprived health conditions have been making their life more fragile. There are many studies traced out revealing health conditions among the tribal people in India. In this article, the author focuses on certain interrelating factors like gender, education, poverty, the status of health, nutrition, food consumption, knowledge about diseases, alcoholism and tobacco usage, unemployment and health schemes as major determining factors of the health of tribes in India. The study has primarily aimed to describe the health condition of tribes in India and to check the major factors that determine the health of tribes in India. The study is descriptive in nature and data has taken from available secondary sources.