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An Assessment of Parental Knowledge, Belief and Attitude toward Childhood Immunization among Minorities in Rural Areas of District Faisalabad, Pakistan Asim, Muhammad; Malik, Nazia; Yousaf, Haroon; Gillani, Iram; Habib, Nazeen
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 11 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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Childhood immunization protects children from a variety of serious and potentially fatal and life threateningcommunicable diseases. Now immunization of children has been one of the securest and most efficient measures againstavertable diseases in all over the world including Pakistan. In many societies where more than one racial, ethnic and religiousminorities group exist, and one group is Inclined to dominant the others. This generally conduces to social and economicdisfavor for the secondary groups. That’s why this study was designed to explore the gap toward health facilities and assess theparental knowledge, belief and attitude toward childhood immunization. A sample of 160 Christian minorities was selectedconveniently from District Faisalabad through multistage sampling techniques. Majority of the respondents 95% were aware ofchild immunization, and 81.3% respondents agreed that child immunization were impotent for the children for their healthy future.85% of the respondents were in the opinion that childhood immunization is more beneficial than harmful, and 90% of therespondents confessed that child immunization is not prohibited in our religion.
Socio Economic Impact of Water Crisis on Agrarian Community in District Faisalabad, Pakistan Asim, Muhammad; Vains, Ali Hassan; Yousaf, Haroon; Ramzan, Muhammad Azam
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 11 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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Agriculture plays a pivotal role in the national economy of Pakistan. 65% of total population of Pakistan is living invillages and their major source of livelihood depends upon agriculture. Pakistan has the largest world irrigation system itsirrigation strength three times more than that of Russia. But unfortunately, Pakistani farmers are facing serious water shortageproblem in these days. The main objectives of the present study were to explore the effects of scarcity of canal water on theyield of different type of major crops and assess the affect of ground water on crops and its socio economic implication on thefarmers’ lives. A sample of 160 household farmers was selected through multistage sampling techniques. Specifically throughthis study, farmers’ survival due to the shortage of irrigation water highly depends upon tube well water. Due to this phenomenonnot only farmers have to pay lot of money in the form of fuel but also tube well water negatively affects the crops yield. Theresearchers also found out the socio economic problems due to the water crises such as irrigation water disputes, lesscultivation, lack of interest of livestock and these notions also badly affect their crops yield as well as their socio economiccondition.
Co-Authors Asim, Muhammad Gillani, Iram Habib, Nazeen Malik, Nazia Ramzan, Muhammad Azam Vains, Ali Hassan