{"title":"Ethno-archaeological Perspective for Understanding Maternal and Infant Health of Past","authors":"Nilam Yadav, V. Mushrif-Tripathy","doi":"10.5958/0975-6884.2016.00024.4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mother health and infant care are extremely significant. There are many organisations working on this issue. The main criteria of a healthy motherhood and child have been set up by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO defines health as ‘a state of completephysical, mentaland social well-being and notmerely the absence of diseaseand infirmity.’It is well recognised that health is not the exclusive domain of medical science because every culture, irrespective of its simplicity and complexity, has its own beliefs and practices concerning diseases. The present paper discusses the possibilities of using data on maternal and infant health of present village population to understand the status of mother's and child's physical condition of bygone population.","PeriodicalId":227852,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Man - An International Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Asian Man - An International Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5958/0975-6884.2016.00024.4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mother health and infant care are extremely significant. There are many organisations working on this issue. The main criteria of a healthy motherhood and child have been set up by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO defines health as ‘a state of completephysical, mentaland social well-being and notmerely the absence of diseaseand infirmity.’It is well recognised that health is not the exclusive domain of medical science because every culture, irrespective of its simplicity and complexity, has its own beliefs and practices concerning diseases. The present paper discusses the possibilities of using data on maternal and infant health of present village population to understand the status of mother's and child's physical condition of bygone population.