Abstract

Health is one of the vital indicators reflecting the quality of human life. World Health Organization (WHO) describes health as a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely as absence of diseases or infirmity. Today majority of Indian indigenous (Treble’s) people are facing various communicable and non communicable diseases. It is found that positive correlation between the health status of tribal people and their socio-economic development. Many reputed non-governmental organization (NGOs) have been working towards health issues of the indigenous people for quite some time now. India is standing as the country with the world’s second largest tribal mass after Africa. Only few studies have been done on the impact of NGOs intervention on tribal health management covering specific theoretical and geographic territory. Very little work, however, has entailed an in-depth analytical study of comparative emic perspectives of different factors responsible for the successful impact of NGOs intervention on tribal’s health. Therefore, there is an urgent need to examine and evaluate the impact of NGOs interventions on tribal’s health. In this regard this article is based on author’s personnel experiences working on tribal health issue since the last few years.

Key words: Non-governmental organization (NGOs), tribal population, tribal’s health, India.