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Family Health Status

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Assignment
Title: Casework with regards to the health status of the family
Course: Field Lab

Couse Teacher: Manoj Joseph

Submitted by: Lentinler Chongloi
Roll No: 02
BaSW 3rd years Semester V

Word Count: 1772
Profile of the participants:
Mr Roshan (44 years old) is a teacher who gave coaching to senior students of high school and higher secondary school. He have been living in Sangvi Mardi from his birth and his ancestor have a trace that they have been settle in this village for 5 to 6 generations. He has finished his education in Bachelor of education. In a month he earn Rs. 8000 to Rs. 9000. Whenever we got to meet his wife for getting some information, if his wife is busy he used to help us in clearing all the doubt …show more content…

As there are constant income in the family from the Mr Roshan, he can afford the medical expenditures of his father, wife and his youngest son hospitalization. Moreover till now his father is in regular medication and need to go for regular medical check-up. For his wife and his dad, they were admitted in government hospital.
So we move on with the question keep in mind about Right to Health which is a minimum standard that is require for a person to have the right to access health facilities services. Due to understanding of healthy life, I can see cases of family members which are treated in hospitals and till now Mr Rakesh is in medication. But Mr Roshan complain about his health which is keep unable to sleep properly due to ache in his body.
When we see the Behaviour and Socio Cultural of his daily life activities which are not that importantly visible for them but it is a very important in regards of health and hygiene practice.In the participants family: they do open defecation and also drink unboil water, when I enquired about the purpose about the practice of open defecation, Mr Roshan told me that they don’t have a space in their house compound for making a …show more content…

With the age increasing, the immunity of the person is also degrading. Like in my case study of my participant, in the early age, Mr Rakesh does not have the health problem that led him to do hospitalize and took medication for a long period of time. I don’t totally blame the ages as a factor but when we look at the history of his life, there was no major chronic disease or illness that affect him to an extent for hospitalization. In other case, Sangju who is only 3 years old child, doing a treatment at the early age seems to be a very good steps for them and himself because when the disease are in early stage they are easy to be treated and probably cure

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