A Sociological Study of Women’s Health Modernity in Meerut City

Abstract

Health Modernity is the scientific knowledge, attitude and practices towards health and its various dimensions. Several studies have described health modernity within the context of various groups of people. However, health modernity among population sub-groups is still scanty. Here, an attempt is made to find out the health modernity among urban women. This cross-sectional study is carried out in Meerut City of Uttar Pradesh state. A total sample of 100 urban women, age between 21-50 years, is selected through purposive sampling method. The data are collected using pre-designed and structured interview schedule and analyzed using simple statistics techniques. The findings of the present study reveal that on different dimensions of health modernity, less than one-fourth of the respondents have high health modernity on physical health dimension, one-third on reproductive health dimension, three-fourth on nutrition & diet dimension, a little less than half of the respondents on family planning dimension, and a little more than one-third on child care dimension. Thus, the current study has found that there is a need to enable such training programs and campaign which can help in improving health modernity of urban women.