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Background: In our society only, a few peoples have good physiological status from their childhood. Health status of children and adolescents is important factor for young society. This present study highlights the peoples’ state of health and nutrition. Change in height with respect to age can be seen during puberty and adolescence. Growth can also be dependent upon the geographical regions. Methods: In this study included 230 adolescent students (boys- 146, girls- 84) in the age group of between 12-18 years. So many related growth parameters were measured using by an anthropometric rod, weighing machine, and slide calliper. BMI, p value was obtained by performing t-test at 0.05 level of significance. Statistical software SPSS version 20 was used. Results: Growth parameter was found to be increasing with age and it was more pronounced between 16 and 17 years. Interestingly the increment of all the growth parameter was found to be more in urban and less in rural. Conclusions: The findings of this study showed a progressively increasing of growth-related parameters with ages and the progress vary, indicating a nutritional supplementation are unequal (unequal growth pattern), as it was evident from different growth parameters percentile values of CDC and IAP values. This study will certainly help to create among the children and their parents about the physical growth and health.
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Background: Small scale establishments often neglect the worker safety and comfort which impacts both productivity and workers’ safety. Various studies have been conducted in such small-scale establishments but not much has been done on aluminium utensil manufacturing factories. Spinning and casting are two important processes for manufacturing of aluminium utensils. But not much has been studied to assess the hazards of the involved workers. The present study is an attempt to explore this previously unnoticed area. Methods: The study was conducted in different small scale aluminium utensil factories in West Bengal. Sixteen spinners and seventeen casting workers were evaluated for this study. The analysis of posture was done by rapid upper limb assessment (RULA), rapid entire body assessment (REBA) and Ovako working posture analysis system (OWAS). The body parts discomfort was assessed by using Cornell musculoskeletal discomfort questionnaire and Nordic questionnaire was also used to assess the pain they experience. Results: All the casting workers are experiencing postural load beyond the recommended limit whereas in case of spinner, five workers experienced less postural load due to favorable work conditions. Casting workers mainly suffered from low back, neck, right shoulder pain whereas spinners suffered from wrist and finger pain followed by lower extremity pain. Conclusions: Both group of workers are experiencing postural load and discomfort. In case of casting workers, the prevalence was high and immediate interventions are needed. The discomfort is particularly high during the end of shifts.