By: G.M. Rather
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ISBN: 9788197951664
Year: 2025
Binding: Hardbound
Language: English
Total Pages: 150
Preface
Acknowledgement
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter I Introduction
1.1.Introduction to Trace Elements and Human Health
1.2.Significance of the Study
1.3.Review of Literature
Chapter II Physical Frame work and Socio-Economic Set up of North Kashmir Himalayas
2.1. Physical Frame work
2.1.1. Spatial Set Up
2.1.2. Relief
2.I.3. Geology
2.1.4. Soils
2.1.5. Drainage
2.1.6. Climate
2.2. Socio-Economic Set Up
2.2.1. Population and Household Distribution
2.2.2. Age Structure
2.2.3. Family Structure
2.2.4. Levels of Education
2.2.5. Occupational Structure
2.2.6. Income and Expenditure
2.2.7. Agriculture Setup
2.2.8. Availability of Health Care Facilities
2.2.9. Availability of Drinking water
Chapter III Data Base and Methodology
3.1. Data Base
3.1.1. Primary Data
3.1.2. Secondary Data
3.2. Methods Used.
3.2.1. Delineation of Study Area
3.2.2. Techniques of Data Collection/ Analysis
3.2.3. Framing and designing of Questionnaire / Schedule
3.2.4 Sample Collection and Sample Codification
3.2.5 Sample Household Survey
3.2.6 Data Analysis and Map work
Chapter IV Geo-Chemical Environment and Human Health: Conceptual Background.
Chapter V Trace Element Concentration in Soil, Water and Staple Foods
5.1.1. Concentration of Iodine, Copper and Zinc in Soils
5.1.2. Concentration of Iodine, Copper and Zinc in drinking water
5.1.3. Concentration of Iodine, Copper and Zinc in staple foods
Chapter VI Determinants of Trace Element Intake in Humans Body 6.1 Dependency on local staple foods
6.2 Use of Iodized salt
6.3. Methods of purification of drinking water
Chapter VII Spatial Pattern of Trace Element Related Diseases
7.1. Spatial Pattern of Iodine deficiency disease (Thyroid).
7.2. Spatial Pattern of Cu and Zn deficiency disease (Diabetes)
Chapter VIII Identification of Risk Areas
Chapter IX Conclusion and Suggestions
References and Bibliography
Annexure
Trace elements are increasingly been recognized as vital to human health. They are components of haemoglobin, DNA, RNA, and various enzymes and many others are known to have direct relationship with human health. Imbalances of trace elements from dietary sources and drinking water can have an important influence on human health and disease. Diseases due to trace element deficiencies as well as excesses are known for iodine, copper, zinc, selenium, molybdenum, manganese, iron, calcium, arsenic, and cadmium. Both natural processes such as leaching, volcanism and human activities such as mining and are responsible for the redistribution of the trace elements in the soil, and water and organic environments (plants, animals and humans) through a network of pathways called as biogeochemical cycles explained by the process whereby certain trace elements can be transferred from soils to plant and ultimately diffused to human systems.
The present book on Trace Elements and Human Health in North Kashmir Himalayas has been written with main focus on trace elements and their impact on human health particularly of iodine, copper and zinc, Concentration of trace elements in soil, water and staple foods. An attempt has been made for determination of determinants of trace element intake in humans , prevalence of trace element related diseases , identification of high risk areas and most venerable age groups across the different altitudinal zones of North Kashmir Himalayas. The book is based mainly on primary data collected during field surveys and shall be very helpful for students of Geography of Health, health Planners and policy makers for the better health in this mountainous area.