MORBIDITY PATTERN ON STREET SWEEPERS IN RAJAPALAYAM TALUK

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Background: The street sweepers play a vital role to keep the clean and health of public. They have affect various deceases such as viral fever, asthma, various skin deceases breathlessness etc., They have face lot of problems in society and physically. Methods: There are forty-two villages are in Rajapalayam Taluk. There are 123 sweepers are worked in the study area. Hence the researcher taken as 72 respondents adopting by simple random sampling method. The researcher has using well-structured interview schedule for data collection. Result: Most (29.20%) of the respondents are belongs to the Age Group of 26 to 30 years and 31 to 35 years, Majority (68.10%) of the respondents are Male, most (48.60%) are earning the Income Level is Below Rs. 10,000, Majority (59.70%) of the respondents are Married, Majority (65.30%) of the respondents are having above 15 years’ experience, Majority (80.60%) have a Permanent Job, Majority (81.90%) are collecting the garbage through Wheel Borrows, Majority (56.90%) of the sweepers are infected by Fungal Infection under Skin Diseases. Level of significance for nine morbidity conditions is more than P value (0.05). Conclusion: This present study concludes that majority of the sweepers are affected by injuries/ accident, skin deceases, Gastrointestinal Diseases and utilization of personal caring equipments were pitiable.

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