improvedby indigenous population can be Health of indigenous people: Use of health

We share here anexperiment with a group of “primitivetribes” (as classified by the government ofIndia) in improving their health status.In 1987, when a non-governmentalorganisation,ACCORD (Action for Commu-nity Organisation, Rehabilitation and Devel-opment), initiated its health programme,infant mortality among these hunter-gathererswasmorethan125deathsper1000live births.