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18 Soc. Change 3 (1988)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge18 and id is 1 raw text is: Social Change : March 1988 : Vol. 18 No. 1 Population-Health Education in the tribals of South Bihar Amar Kumar Singh* Subodh K. Sinha* Sri Narain Singh* Meera Jayaswal** Azariah Hans* M. K. Jabbi*** The importance of Population-Health Education has been discussed to improve the very low health-population of the tribals. The concept of Population-Health Literacy has been suggested as the fundamental core-content of Population-Health Education, covering five main themes, namely, Population, Development and Quality of Life, Family Planning, Child Care, Diet-Nutrition and Health. Examples of audio-visual intervention materials related to the tribals of Bihar have been given. POPULATION-HEALTH STATUS AND HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (HRD) IN INDIA Population-Health and HRD The establishment of an independent Ministry of Human Resource Development by the Government of India in 1986 underlines the importance of human factor in development. In the ultimate analysis, all development-social, economic, political and technological-is oriented to the welfare of the individual. The common man is the centre-piece of development. The Prime Minister of India has stressed the importance of the human factor in development in his foreword to the Seventh Five Year Plan document: In the final analysis, development is not just about factories, dams and roads, development is basically about people. The goal is the people's material, cultural, and spiritual fulfilment. The human factor, the human context, is of supreme value... policies and programmes in education, health and welfare must also be reconstructed to provide a fuller life for our people. (GOI, 1985a, p. vi) Health and education are the two acknowledged most important factors influencing Human Resource Development. Health assumes a more important role vis-a-vis other determinants of HRD because it comes first in the developmental Digitized from Best Copy Available *Post-Graduate Department of Psychology, Ranchi University, RANCHI-834001 **Population Education Resource Centre (PERC), Ranchi University, RANCHI-834001 ***Human Resource Development Programme (HRDP), Council for Social Development, 53 Lodi Estate, NEW DELHI-110003

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