Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 2
First page : ( 220) Last page : ( 223)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.00289.4

To Live or to Leave?-The Ethical Factors Influencing the Parsi Community's Health

Dhal Shraddha

PhD Research Scholar, English, School of Humanities, KIIT Deemed to-be University, Bhubaneswar

Online published on 8 March, 2019.

Abstract

A healthy living and a healthy community complement one another. A healthy living can undoubtedly ensure the health of a community. A community's health is strongly affected and influenced by its members, their individual health and habits, morals and principles, their perspectives towards life in general and particular, the social capital, the immediate environment and of course the religious and spiritual bent of mind of its people. The deterioration of the health of a community may result in significant changes in its population rate. It is thus very imperative that such an important issue needs to be addressed. The unique Parsi community though an essential part of India's multi-cultural fabric and diversity, is perhaps the only minority outside Europe to have the combination of a higher proportion of older inhabitants and a lower fertility rate. This holds the possibility of a total ethnic extinction of this minority despite having the potential to contribute substantially towards the overall growth of the country. But no matter how alienated as a minority it feels, it must always be protected at any cost. The present paper makes a humble attempt to bring to community health improvement of the Parsi people an approach that emphasizes on identifying various factors held responsible for the rapid decline of the Parsi population. Such an approach would facilitate in protecting and subsequently intensifying the growth of the community.

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Keywords

Parsi community, Minority, Health, Declining population, Survival.

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