Role of Maternal and Child Health Care Services on Postpartum Contraceptive Adoption in India

Priyanka Dixit,Amrita Gupta,Laxmi Kant Dwivedi

doi:10.1177/2158244017733515

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the impact of maternal and child health care (MCH) service utilization on the timing of initiation and type of contraceptive use in the subsequent months after...

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The time span between births was a subject of renewed interest in the field of maternal and child health due to the increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes like the risk of low birth weight, small-for-gestational age, and infant death (Conde-Agudelo, Rosas-Bermúdez, & Kafury-Goeta, 2006)
The third round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data shows that 84% women visited a health center at least once to receive maternal and child health care (MCH) services like antenatal care (ANC), institutional delivery, and postnatal care
MCH center would be hypothesized as the best place to motivate women or couple for early adoption of contraceptive, and this motivation works as a strong linkage between utilization of MCH services and contraceptive use

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Introduction

The time span between births was a subject of renewed interest in the field of maternal and child health due to the increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes like the risk of low birth weight, small-for-gestational age, and infant death (Conde-Agudelo, Rosas-Bermúdez, & Kafury-Goeta, 2006). The third round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data shows that 84% women visited a health center at least once to receive maternal and child health care (MCH) services like antenatal care (ANC), institutional delivery, and postnatal care In this situation, MCH center would be hypothesized as the best place to motivate women or couple for early adoption of contraceptive, and this motivation works as a strong linkage between utilization of MCH services and contraceptive use. Integrated service of MCH with family planning services was recognized as a key strategy to adopt contraceptive among those women who have utilized maternal health care This mechanism would work because providing all the services at one place is cost-effective and responds to the manifold demands on women’s time. Among the women who had adopted contraceptive after 1 year of delivery, 28% preferred to use the spacing methods

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