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HEALTH AND NUTRITION STATUS OF RURAL PEOPLE (A CASE STUDY ON JHILERDANGA AND BARODANGA)

1.1 Background of the study: While the world is moving towards for persuading better society and better living environments, then the people of this country are still fighting for their basic needs, health care facility is one of them. According to WHO, “health means the condition of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (physical and mental health).Nutrition means the process by which living things receive the food necessary for them to grow and be healthy and malnourishment refers to lack of deficiency of particular nutrients, like proteins, vitamins and minerals.   During the last few decades, although significant improvements have been made in the health sector, yet less than 40 percent of the population have access to modern and affordable primary health care facilities and in rural area the situation is more worse. For the low level of awareness and education they are not aware about the nutrition and health ca