Abstract:
Dhaka is the most densely populated city of Bangladesh. People migrant from rural areas
towards Dhaka for their livelihood and thus leads gradually to create slums. Usually
people live in slum faces unhealthy condition and also it leads to pollute the environment.
It is evident that disease states of the inhabitants are strongly affected by lifestyle. Aim of
the study is to find the relation between life style of these people and diseases, they
usually suffer. Participants are randomly selected from different areas of Dhaka city like
Meradia, Badda, Aftabnagar etc. Smoking habits, sanitation type, water treatment
systems, food habits are largely related to asthma, diarrhea and skin diseases. Most of the
slum dwellers use tube well water for all purposes of their work, thus density of
population, unhealthy life condition, unhealthy sanitary systems, lack of physical activity
leads them to suffer by different diseases like Diarrhea (35 %), Hypertension (22.5%),
Skin Disease (17.5%) are the common diseases in the slum dwellers. 57 % slum dwellers
seek professional help for diseases condition. If this practice increases along with the
hygienic life style than disease rate will decrease. Slum dwellers are not even properly
aware about vaccination. If any step can be taken for awaring themselves about their life
style, importance of vaccination etc, then the disease rate can be decreased at a significant
rate.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) in East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
