RESUMO
A controlled study carried out in the hilly Konkan region on the West coast of India showed that school children have the potential for transmitting their newly acquired knowledge to their parents. Though the results indicate that acquisition of knowledge does not mean a change in attitudes concerning leprosy, child-to-parent education may show promising results in leprosy education in developing countries where most parents of school children are illiterate and are not easily reached by conventional methods of health education.
Assuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Países em Desenvolvimento , Escolaridade , Saúde da Família , Feminino , Educação em Saúde , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Humanos , Índia , Hanseníase , Masculino , Inquéritos e Questionários , Distribuição Aleatória , Instituições AcadêmicasRESUMO
Only 8 percent of the prostitutes were literate. Income per night varied from Rs 10 to Rs 30 for 72% of the prostitutes. Whereas only one third of the married women were happy with the profession, 95.92% of Devdasis liked the profession. Illiteracy, domestic unhappiness, deception, destitution, poor socio-ecomic status of parents, and religious custom of Devdasi were the important contributory factors for landing innocent girls or socially handicapped women into prostitution.