Download Free PDF. Study of risk factors in children with birth asphyxia. International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics, 2017. Nishant Yadav. Download Download PDF. Full PDF Package Download Full PDF Package. This Paper. A short summary of this paper. 10 Full PDFs related to this paper. Download. The most widely used scale for urban population is Kuppuswamy Socio-economic scale which was given by Kuppuswamy in the year 1976 [ 1 ]. The original scale is based upon three components i.e., Occupation of the head of the family, Education of the head of the family and Total monthly income of the family from all sources. Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic status scale-updating for 2007. Naresh Kumar, Chandra Shekhar, Priyank Kumar, A S Kundu. 01 Dec 2007-Indian Journal of Pediatrics (Indian J Pediatr)-Vol. 74, Iss: 12, pp 1131-1132. About: This article is published in Indian Journal of Pediatrics.The article was published on 2007-12-01 and is currently open access. It For updating Kuppuswamy scale value of income categories given by Kuppuswamy in 1976 is to be calculated for today, for example, if a particular quantity of goods could be bought of Rs. 2000 in 1976, what amount of money would buy the same quantity of goods today. of years 2001, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 are 100, 274.33, 281.17, 294.83 and Kuppuswamy scale • Devised by Kuppuswamy in 1976 • Important tool in hospital and community based research in India - Education of head of family, - Occupation of head of the family - Income per month from all sources • This scale classifies the study populations into high, middle, and low SES • Yields a score of 3-29 5. Why revision ? The most commonly used scales for measuringsocioeconomic status are modified BG Prasad scale, Kuppuswamy scale, and Uday Pareek scale used for bothurban and rural areas, urban areas, and rural areas,respectively.1 However, social transformation and fast- growing economy have rendered these scales ineffective in measuring the SES at present. Modified Kuppuswamy's SES Scale This scale was devised by Kuppuswamy and is the most widely used scale for determining the socio-economic status of an individual or a family in urban areas.6Initially the scale was formulated for determining SES of an individual but later an individual.7The scale was initially developed by methods:a total of 200 individual elderly person above 65 years of age and subjects willing to participate were included and there depression level was assessed based on their gender, age classification, and socioeconomic status using geriatric depression scale (gds), zung self-rating depression scale(zsrd) and modified kuppuswamy's … View IndianJForensicCommunityMed-8-1-1-3.pdf from BSED ENGLISH 41 at Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University. See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: According to the Modified Kuppuswamy Scale, most of the women belonged to Lower middle & upper lower socioeconomic class11 . Hemoglobin concentration, packed cell volume, Issue||03||Page 19242-19247||March 2017 rise in serum ferritin from mean of 10.83ng/dl on day 0 to 14.97ng/dl on day 14 and 21.74ng/dl on day 28 was observed. In the Kuppuswamy's SES scale "The modified Kuppuswamy scale was used to measure the SES of patients. The scale is based on a composite score considering the education and occupation of the head of the family along with their monthly income, which yields a score of