SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

DEFINATION:
Socio economic status has been defined as a position that an
individual or family occupies with reference to prevailing standards of
cultural and material possession, income & education.
IMPORTANCE IN STUDY OF HYPERTENSION:
 Health & diseases are distributed unequally in different social class.
 Hypertension is chronic non communicable disease. So its pattern is
affected by life style, food habits, occupation, beliefs etc. like factors.
These factors are varying according to socio economic status.
 Hypertension is more common in higher socio economic class because of
sedentary life style, only mild physical exertion, and good economic
status so nutritious foods are more but overnutrition in present,
competitive life so stress is more & life expectancy in more so old aged
risk group person are also more so prevalence is bigger than lower
socioeconomic class.
 One advantage of Knowing social class is also that it help in
management illiterate have not shown regularity during treatment so
strict follow up is must. On other hand higher educational level make
person to understand incurable nature of disease so person take regular
treatment.
 Also lower economic group do not want to afford expense of life time
treatment.

FAMILY DETAILS OF PATIENT:

NAME OF MEMBER EDUCATION OCCUPATION INCOME

Ratilal Prajapati Diploma in Lab assistant 4200+7000Rs.
(patient) laboratory
technology
Chandrikaben S.S.C. Housewife -
Prajapati
Himesh Prajapati B.A. Shopkeeper 2000Rs.
Ashish Prajapati Studying C.A. Stududent -
(Post H.S.C.)

PATIENT’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS:

1. According to Kuppuswami’s statement for an individual:-

EDUCATION SCORE OCCUPATION SCORE INCOME SCORE

(IN Rs.)
Master 7 Professional 10 ≥2000 12
Graduate 6 Semi-professional 6 1000- 10
1999
Post HSC 5 Clerical/Shop/Farm 5 750-999 6
Diploma owner
HSC 4 Skilled worker 4 500-749 4
SSC 3 Semi-skilled worker 3 300-499 3
Primary 2 Un-skilled worker 2 101-299 2
illiterate 1 Un-employed 1 ≤100 1
Due to repeated changes in the value of rupee, the criteria for income
above can be modified as below –
- A correction factor ‘F’ is calculated with the help of the recent
value of Consumer Price Index which changes on every 1st
January & 1st July.
CPI as of January 2007 is 496(Ref : Ministry of
Statistics and Programme Implementation, Govt. of
India)
F = (CPI × 4.93)/100 = 24.4528
New Income range = F × range value of old classification

NEW INCOME
SCORE
RANGE(RUPEES)
48,905 or more 12
24,450-48,904 10
18,337-24,449 06
12,225-18,336 04
7,335-12,224 03
2,469-7,334 02
≤2,468 01

From the total score of a person got from above tables Socio economic
class is determined as below

TOTAL SCORE CLASS SOCIAL CLASS

26-29 1 Upper
16-25 2 Upper middle
11-15 3 Lower middle
5-10 4 Upper lower
<5 5 Lower

Patient’s score is 5 (Educational) +5 (Occupational) +4 (Income) = 14.

Therefore he is from Lower middle class.

2. According to B.G.Prasad’s statement:-

In old classification of B.G. Prasad (1960) he had considered per capita

income/month & classified classes as below:

PER CAPITA INCOME SOCIO-ECONOMIC

(IN Rs.)/MONTH CLASS
>100 1
50-99 2
30-49 3
15-29 4
<15 5
 But now it has updated. Now in modified version of this classification
following steps are done:
- CPI = 496( January 2007)
- F = 24.4528
- New range is as below:

MODIFIED RANGE OF CLASS

PERCAPITA INCOME
>2445 1
1222-2444 2
733-1221 3
366-732 4
<366 5
For our patient calculation are as below:

- Patient’s per capita income/month is 3300 (>2445) Rs. per

month. Therefore patient is of class 1 socio economic status.

EXPENDITURE AND SAVINGS:

Article/Service Rupees uses per month

s
Food 3500
Clothing 0500
Entertainment 0300
Education 4000
Health -
kerosene -
Gas 0400
Addiction -
Electricity 0400
Petrol 0600
Total 9700

Total income of family is 4200 + 7000 + 2000 = 13,200 Rupees/month. So

savings is 3500 Rupees/month.

SOCIO-CULTURAL ATTITUDE OF THE FAMILY:

 Religion: They are Hindu. Their chief God is Lord Krishna.
 Marriage: They don’t believe in Child Marriage. They believe that person
should marry only when one can understand one’s responsibility. They
also not believe in dowry or other customs similar to it.
 Dietary concept: They are vegetarian & do not eat non-vegetarian food as
their religious custom
 About pregnancy & lactation: They know important of timeperiod of such
condition. They believe that breast feeding is given for 6-8 month.
 Attitude of members: Children of Ratilalbhai are mature. They live in
good harmony. They are good host for any guest as they are caring &
loving.
 Sanitation & Hygiene: They maintain it in their home.
CONCLUSION:
Family is socially happy, economically stable & educated. Family members
are living in good harmony so life of patient & his family is smooth.