The NGO Health Team, regularly visits the smallholder farmer’s families in the rural settings while pensioners practising backyard farming, are visited in the urban settings. Vital signs, are taken in order to ascertain the health status. The major vital signs are body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate and the body mass index. The observed individuals, are advised to see their doctors for full observation.
The body mass index, can independently be carried by individuals, with the application of Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator.
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World Health Organization (WHO) guide on BMI Categorization:
- Severely Underweight: <16 kg/m2
- Underweight: 16.0 to 18.4 kg/m2
- Normal weight: 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2
- Overweight: 25.0 to 29.9 kg/m2
- Moderately Obese: 30.0 to 34.9 kg/m2
- Severely Obese: 35.0 to 39.9 kg/m2
- Morbidly Obese: ≥40.0 kg/m2
Health sensitization talk, was held with pensioners on proper diet and mild tolerable exercise. Click Picture to view.
Health sensitization talks, were also held in secondary schools.