Age at menarche and menopause among Saharia women-A primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh

Type Working Paper - Anthropologist
Title Age at menarche and menopause among Saharia women-A primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh
Author(s)
Volume 6
Issue 4
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2004
Page numbers 247-252
URL http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T-Anth/Anth-07-0-000-000-2005-Web/Anth-07-2-085-160-2005-Ab​st-PDF/Anth-07-2-105-109-2005-250-Biswas-R-K/Anth-07-2-105-109-2005-250-Biswas-R-K.pdf
Abstract
In the present paper, an attempt has been made to study the age at menarche and menopause of the women among Saharia – a primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh. In women life, menarche and menopause are the significant and inevitable events which indicate a particular adult stage of first periodical flow of blood from womb and ceases to ovulate and menstruate respectively in all healthy women. As primitive tribe, Saharia are positioned under socio-economically backward condition. Mean age at menarche and menopause of women are varied in regarding the different background factors like – nutritional status, family size, medical facility, genetic factor, environment, education, birth rank, living standard, socio-economic condition, etc. In comparison with various studies, mean menarcheal and menopausal age of Saharia women have been found to be high (13.5 ± 0.84 years) and low 44.6 ± 1.17 years) respectively. Malnutrition, paucity of clinical facility, harsh environment, low socio-economic status, etc. may be assessed as the attributed reasons of high mean age at menarche as well as low mean age at menopause of Saharia women.

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