Retrospective comparative evaluation of the lasting impact of a community-based primary health care programme on under-5 mortality in villages around Jamkhed, India
Vera Mann, Alex Eble, Chris Frost, Ramaswamy Premkumar & Peter Boone
Volume 88, Number 10, October 2010, 727-736
Table 2. Characteristics of control and intervention villages, households and mothers in a retrospective evaluation of the impact of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), Maharashtra state, India, 2007
| Characteristic | Control villages |
CRHP villages |
P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | |||
| Villagesa | ||||||
| CRHP activities | ||||||
| < 10 yrs | – | – | 28 | 37.3 | – | |
| 10 to < 20 yrs | – | – | 21 | 8.0 | – | |
| 20+ yrs | – | – | 26 | 34.7 | – | |
| Irrigation | ||||||
| Yes | 19 | 25.3 | 9 | 12.0 | 0.06 | |
| No | 56 | 74.7 | 66 | 88.0 | ||
| Householdsb | ||||||
| Land owner | 2024 | 88.2 | 1794 | 79.6 | < 0.001 | |
| No information given | 3 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.2 | ||
| Mothersc | ||||||
| Aged | 29.5d | 7.0d | 29.3d | 7.0d | 0.24 | |
| Religion | 0.15 | |||||
| Hindu | 2363 | 94.2 | 2249 | 92.5 | ||
| Muslim | 79 | 3.2 | 124 | 5.1 | ||
| Other | 66 | 2.6 | 59 | 2.4 | ||
| Caste | 0.0005 | |||||
| Most backwarde caste/tribe | 293 | 11.7 | 415 | 17.1 | ||
| Other backward caste | 163 | 6.5 | 290 | 11.9 | ||
| Nomad | 457 | 18.2 | 424 | 17.5 | ||
| Non-backward | 1595 | 63.6 | 1298 | 53.5 | ||
| No information given | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.2 | ||
a There were 75 control and 75 CRHP villages.
b There were 2294 households in control villages and 2253 households in CRHP villages.
c There were 2508 mothers in control villages and 2432 mothers in CRHP villages.
d Age is given as mean age in years and standard deviation. Age was missing for one woman in the control villages.
e Most backward: scheduled caste. Scheduled castes and tribes, formerly known as “depressed classes”, are groups explicitly recognized and afforded certain protections under the Constitution of India.