Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology

This paper “spiritual resilience and the intervention of holy scripture” is to explore new facets, reinforce and approve of the fact that Holy Scripture is an augmentation of spiritual resilience. In today’s turbulent times, spiritual resilience is the greatest asset a person can have. The need is to know how subjects have shown this trait. In this paper, literature and previous studies have been reviewed to come out with the fact that Holy Scripture reading and trusting God has helped build resilience to over come difficult situations in life giving one inner peace and strength. This study reinforces that trusting in God is the greatest strength one can get. This paper will impact for a non-resilient person to venture into and discover that spiritual resilience and quality of life is not anything hard, but revolves on hope, faith and trust.

Keywords: Holy Scripture; Spiritual Resilience; Faith; Hope; God.

Better health is one of the most important aspect of the overall development and progress of any country. In the context of India, tribals are an integral part, which are 8.6 percent of the total population of the country. Scarce public health care services in India and related issues are currently the most discussed topic with recent outbreak of Covid-19 affecting human life terribly and still persisting. Health care issue affects every individual in the society. In tribal areas health care issues become even more important because as it seems that this section of society is still comparatively in unprivileged condition and not properly exploited the benefits of development process.India's development cannot be imagined without improvement of rural and tribal health. This article highlights major issues prevailing in the rural tribal health care system of India, which arises many barriers to tribal health and the holistic development of the country. Based on the blending results of several multi-factual studies, it is known that there exist many issues prevailingin the rural tribal health care delivery system. Many issues are there which are responsible for poor and complex tribal health status among the tribes, such as, low awareness about health, different religious and cultural beliefs, unrealistic health practices, living in difficult and inaccessible areas, financial problems, various infectious diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and poor public health care facilities, etc. These issues have attracted renewed attention from physicians, health policy experts, various health agencies as well as the general public, particularly tribal societies, which are most affected by these issues.

Keywords: Health Status; Health Infrastructure; Rural Health Care Services; Tribal Culture And Practices; Health Policy; Public Involvement And Awareness.

Introduction: The Maternal Mortality Ratio of Chhattisgarh is 269 (SRS 2010-11) which are higher than the National average (178). If we analyze the state wise data of MMR we found that Chhattisgarh is fourth in position amongst all states of India. Maternal and child health care is an important aspect of health seeking behaviour which is largely neglected among the tribal groups (Basu et al., 1990). It has been seen that inspite of a lot of government incentive programmes for women health care and development, some obstacles create obstruction to acquire modern medical institutional facilities. It is a burning concern for the development because the problems of tribal women differ from a particular area to another area owing to their geographical location, historical background and the processes of social change (Chauhan, A., 1990).

Objectives: The study concerned with the objective of understanding the gap between government modern health facilities and tribal women with special reference to maternal health care.

Study Area: For the study purpose tribal dominating villages of south Bastar, Chhattisgarh was selected. Chhattisgarh is known as 10th largest state of India where Bastar is known as its rich and uniqueness of bio-cultural diversity in the whole world.

Methodology: Random sampling technique was the key instrument for selecting sample as well as Snowball sampling is also used to identify a few households where maternal and infant related problems occurred through some key informants in the village and ask each of them to identify households where maternal problems have occurred. Questionnaire on different variables of knowledge, attitudes, belief and opinion about government health institution were organised by direct interview. Along with above semi participatory observation was strength for the data collection.

Result: The findings stated that the acceptance of modern institutional health facilities is poor amongst tribal people. In addition, a lot of females suffered from ill health due to pregnancy and childbirth in the absence of a well defined concept of health consciousness.

Conclusion: The health problems of mothers arise as a result of synergistic effects of malnutrition, poverty, illiteracy, unhygienic living conditions, infections and unregulated fertility. Apart from that superstitious beliefs play an essential obstruction to acquire modern medical facilities. At the same time, poor infrastructure and ineffective public health services is also responsible for low inadequate obstetric care.

Keywords: Maternal mortality; Seeking behavior; Modern medical institutional; Tribal women; Superstitious beliefs.