IOSR Journal Of Pharmacy www.iosrphr.org (e)-ISSN: 2250-3013, (p)-ISSN: 2319-4219 Volume 9, Issue 1 Version. I (January 2019), PP. 12-20 12 Frequency of Visit to Doctor and Health Problem Redresses of Farm Women: The Interactions and Impact in Rural Health Management Riti Chatterjee*, Sankar Kumar Acharya** and Amitava Biswas** *Senior Research Fellow (PhD scholar), **Professor Department of Agricultural Extension, BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal Abstract – The farm women are one of the neglected individuals in the farm ecology in Indian scenario. They have to work for a longer time under the scorching sun and rain in the field as well as they serve their family along with. So, they suffer from various types of diseases and physical problems all the year round. But at the end of the day their health issues are severely neglected. Sometimes they pay visit to the doctor at later stages of problem or sometimes there is no visit to doctor . Lack of systematic screening and prevention for both acute and chronic illness is a greater constraint for poor farm women. The present study focuses its target on the farm womens’ frequency of visit to the doctor.A study on this topic, was carried out at Boinchigram village under Pandua Block in Hooghly district of west bengal with objectives to generate classified information on occupational hazards of farm women,to estimate the level visit to doctor by the farm women s in terms of a score of socio-economic and ecological factors ,to estimate the interactive relationships between frequency of doctor’s visit and the set of socio-economic and ecological variables and to generate micro level policy implication based on the empirical study. In order to collect the reliable experimental data, the selected parameters were taken, like: Height, Weight, B.M.I., Blood report, Perceived physical problems, functional literacy, mental stress, frequency of visit to doctor etc. Majority of the population under study are poor, undernourished farm women. From the study it has seen that the variable Body Mass Index (BMI) has recorded both the highest direct and indirect effect to the dependent variable frequency of visit to doctor. Because , who are physically weak and have less weight and height mainly suffer from many physical problems and the frequency of visit to doctor is highest in case of them .And the total calorie consumption per day has recorded the highest indirect effect because calorie is the most important component to eke out one’s daily lives. So, we should immediately take both preventive and curative measures, otherwise it will affect future workforce of Agriculture. Keywords: BMI, Doctor, Farm women, Health, Occupational hazards. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 20-12-2018 Date of acceptance: 03-01-2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION The derelict impact of green revolution in India has been well discernible through the health hazards of farm women recorded. All the dividend from the enhancement agricultural productivity has harshly been negated by the toxic ground water, entries of heavy metals in food chain and subsequently the coercive impact on the women health who are engaged in farm operations along with farmers as well. Visit to a doctor with differential frequency by farm women can be well taken as an indicator to measure the verbosity of exposure and its subsequent forms of heath hazards. The present research clearly focuses its target on the farm women’s’ health vis-a-vis occupational hazards to elicit the facts what are factors under which they are relying with broken health and eroded motivation . Adejare (2001) used self rated health status, frequency of seeking treatment and frequency of inability to work were used to compute the health status rating scale of rural women. Similarly, the burden of diseases can be measured in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALYs), physical quality of life index (PQLI) and gender related development (GDI) to determine the overall level of physical well-being. But lack of systematic screening and prevention for both acute and chronic illness is a greater constraint for poor and rural populations. It disproportionately affects their burden of disease and expenditures (Rao and Mant, 2012). Research on health care use in rural areas shows that a stark ninety percent of the population seeks care from private providers, with over seventy percent of those providers being unqualified (MAQARI, 2011). So, it is necessary also to identify the pathway of coercive and pernicious molecules in the agro- ecosystem and keeps engulfing the economic, ecological and psycho-somatic health of farm women.