Education, employment, economic status and empowerment: Implications for maternal health care services utilization in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvind Kumar Yadav ◽  
Bhavna Sahni ◽  
Pabitra Kumar Jena
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Maternal Health Care ◽  
Services Utilization ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Care Services Utilization ◽  
Maternal Health Care Services

scholarly journals Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services among Mothers Residing at Slum Area

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
Shreemaya Shrestha ◽  
Dev Kumari Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Maternal Health Services ◽  
Maternal Health Care ◽  
Antenatal Visit ◽  
Services Utilization ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Maternal Health Care Services ◽  
One Year

Background: Appropriate utilization of maternal health care services is very important tool to reduce the maternal and child morbidity and mortality rate. This study was conducted to assess the utilization of maternal health care services by the women for their last pregnancy in one year period and to find out it’s association with selected variables.Methods: Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted for one year by using semi-structured questionnaire among 285 mothers residing at slums area of Dharan sub-metropolitan city after taking written consent from them. Ethical clearance was obtained from Institutional Review Committee, BPKIHS and Dharan Sub-metropolitan city office. Simple random sampling followed by snowball sampling method was used to collect the data by interview method.Results: Majority (95.1%) had one Antenatal visit, 60.4% had initiated antenatal visit at first trimester and 78.99% had completed 4 or more antenatal visits. Only 35.8% had taken complete dose of iron and calcium. Majority 262 (91.92%) respondents have taken Tetanus Toxoid immunization and among them only 74.42% had taken 2 dose of TT injection. Women who delivered in health facility accounted for 70.9% but only 28.8% went for postnatal visit. Majority (65.3%) received health advice during postnatal period. Nearly 40% respondents used family planning after post partum period .There was significant association between utilization of antenatal and delivery services with Educational status of respondents and their husbands and number of pregnancy and between utilization of postnatal services with occupation of husband.Conclusions: Utilization of maternal health care services, antenatal services utilization were satisfactory whereas postnatal services and family planning services utilization were very poor. Utilization of maternal health services should be encouraged by conducting public awareness programmes.Keywords: Maternal health services; utilization; women.

scholarly journals Women’s Socio-Economic Status as a Determinant of Utilization of Antenatal Care in Primary Health Centres: A Case Study of Nando Community, Anambra East Local Government Area, Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Maternal Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Maternal Health Care Services

The study examined the association between women’s status and utilisation of maternal health care services of primary health care centres in Anambra east L.G.A of Anambra state. Five objectives were developed. A cross sectional descriptive research design was used. The study population consisted of women of child bearing age (15-49 years) who had given birth in the last five years. A sample size of 500 participants was used after using the formula for estimating sample size from a finite population. However, only 482 copies of the questionnaire were returned, giving a response rate of 96.4%. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire developed by the researchers based on literature review. Data were analysed using the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS version 18). The major findings showed that 71.5% utilised ANC while 44.4% utilised delivery healthcare services; 40.2% of the women took decisions jointly with their husbands while 32.4% took decisions alone on utilisation of ANC. As regards utilisation of delivery care services, 39% took decisions alone while 36.5% took decisions jointly with their husbands on where to have their baby. There were statistical significant associations between women decision making autonomy women education, women economic status and utilization of maternal health services. However, the study showed no statistical significant association between occupational status and utilisation of maternal health care services. The study concluded that the factors that influence the utilisation of maternal health care services are women decision making autonomy, educational status and their economic status.

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