Concept of Health and Nutrition among Rickshaw Pullers in Dhaka city - Abstract
This paper is based on a study drawing information from the concept of health and nutrition of rickshaw pullers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This study on
rickshaw puller has been conducted on 200 rickshaw pullers of Dhaka city to anatomize their concept on health and nutrition. They’re from different areas likeDhanmondi, Badda, Uttara, Mohammadpur, Bashabo- participated in the survey. 94% of Dhaka’s rickshaw-pullers reported that they’re going through so many
complications such as health complication, income complications etc. They work hard, but their living, nutritional and living conditions are dreadful. Daily dietary
nutrient intakes consumption of foods by food group was estimated using 24-h dietary recall method. Besides pulling a rickshaw, it represents more income than
is available within the village, as urban rickshaw pullers come from a negative persistent poverty. Data were collected from randomly selected 200 rickshaw
pullers using quantitative method. The other data were collected from journal paper, articles, thesis paper, daily newspapers etc.