Comparative study on health consciousness between rural and urban school students

Abstract

Health is a very important part to our daily life. Good health depends on many factors, such as Genetic factors, Environmental factors, social factors, Economic factors etc. Health Consciousness define an attitude which one aware about our lifestyle. The data was collected from 50 Rural and 50. Urban school students of Purba Burdwan district through Health Consciousness scales constructed by Chihwei Selenu Hu in 2013. After collecting the data, the researcher gone through descriptive statistics that is Mean, SD and comparative statistics that is “t” to compare difference between two groups. On the basis of result and discussion the following conclusion were drawn -1. Urban students were more Health Conscious, Health Self-Conscious, Mental Health Orientation, and Health Responsibility than Rural school student.2. There was no significance difference in Health Value, Health Information Seeking, Physical Health Orientation between Rural and Urban students.