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Tribal population in India: A public health challenge and road to future

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Pathak, VineetKumar, Kumar, MMohan, Ruikar, Manisha·2020·Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
DOI 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_992_19PMC PMC7113978
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India with 8.6% of tribal population is finding it difficult to bridge the gap that exists between tribal and non-tribal population in regards to healthcare. Tribal population suffers triple burden of disease; in fact it is quadruple, namely, communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, mental health, and addictions complicated by poor health seeking behavior. With increasing needs, an Expert committee on Tribal health has given recommendations with the goal to bridge the current gap in the health status of tribal people latest by the year 2027. An entirely parallel health system has been proposed with key focus areas, governance, and financing. To summarize and report the present scenario in terms of disease burden, health-seeking behavior, healthcare delivery system, and a roadmap for the future along the importance of primary healthcare in achieving it. Mere establishment of more health facilities cannot overcome the poor health of tribal population and so the role of trained manpower to deliver quality healthcare, in which case the role of traditional healers, local Tribal boys and girls comes in handy. It is high time and states should act swiftly to assess the needs, priorities of their own tribal population and set goals, targets to achieve the same through proven public health strategies.

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  • Tribal areas in both states have common challenges such as poor roads, high cost and distance of transport to secondary care facilities, representing areas that are least included in most studies.

    “Tribal areas in both states have common challenges such as poor roads, high cost and distance of transport to secondary care facilities, representing areas that are least included in most studies.56”

    From Protocol for a cervical screening implementation trial comparing two approaches for delivering HPV self-collection in low-resource settings in India: a type 3 hybrid cluster randomised controlled trial (SHE-CAN) (2025) · cites this paper as [56]

    The Present Scenario: Disease Burden section describes geographically isolated tribal habitats, and Status of healthcare delivery system reports shortages of facilities and specialists in tribal areas. The paper does not establish poor roads, transport costs or distance to secondary care as common challenges in the two states, nor does it say these areas are least included in most studies. No page numbers were available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Pathak, V., Kumar, M., & Ruikar, M.
Affiliations
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur (IN)
Corresponding author
Pathak, VineetKumar
ORCID
Ruikar, Manisha
Venue
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
2020
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
508
ISSN
2249-4863 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_992_19
PMC
PMC7113978
OpenAlex
W3009175225
Cited by
166
References
8
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 2
FWCI
19.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-sa
Locations
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Health and Education
  • Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
Keywords
tribal population, tribal health, health disparities, triple burden of disease, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, mental health, substance addiction, health-seeking behavior, health care delivery systems, primary care, healthcare workers, traditional healers, health care financing, health governance

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