Utilization of maternal and child health care services by primigravida females in urban and rural areas of India.

Hemant Mahajan,Bhuwan Sharma

doi:10.1155/2014/123918

Abstract

Maternal complications and poor perinatal outcome are highly associated with nonutilisation of antenatal and delivery care services and poor socioeconomic conditions of the patient. It is essential that all pregnant women have access to high quality obstetric care throughout their pregnancies. Present longitudinal study was carried out to compare utilization of maternal and child health care services by urban and rural primigravida females. A total of 240 study participants were enrolled in this study. More illiteracy and less mean age at the time of marriage were observed in rural population. Poor knowledge about prelacteal feed, colostrums, tetanus injection and iron-follic acid tablet consumption was noted in both urban and rural areas. Very few study participants from both areas were counselled for HIV testing before pregnancy. More numbers of abortions (19.2%) were noted in urban study participants compared to rural area. Thus utilization of maternal and child health care (MCH) services was poor in both urban and rural areas. A sustained and focussed IEC campaign to improve the awareness amongst community on MCH will help in improving community participation. This may improve the quality, accessibility, and utilization of maternal health care services provided by the government agencies in both rural and urban areas.

Highlights

E Motherhood is the most important position a woman can have in her life but can be a life threatening event as well
The paper titled “Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Care Services by Primigravida Females in Urban and Rural Areas of India” [1], published in International Scholarly Research Notices, has been retracted as it is found to contain a substantial amount of material, without referencing, from the dissertation titled “A Comparative Study to Assess the Availability and Utilization of Reproductive and Child Health Services between Rural and Urban Antenatal Care Set Up in Maharashtra with Assessment of Effect of Close Supervision and Support in Selective Subjects in Both Groups,” by Nitin Pandurang Mahajan and Abhiram M
A sustained and focussed IEC campaign to improve the awareness amongst community on maternal and child health care (MCH) will help in improving community participation. This may improve the quality, accessibility, and utilization of maternal health care services provided by the government agencies in both rural and urban areas

Summary

Introduction

E Motherhood is the most important position a woman can have in her life but can be a life threatening event as well. Any woman can develop serious, lifethreatening complications that require medical care. In the RInternational Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related. Because there is no reliable way to predict which woman will develop pregnancy-related complications, it is essential that all pregnant women have access to high quality obstetric care throughout their pregnancies. Maternal complications and poor perinatal outcome are highly associated with nonutilisation of antenatal and delivery care services and poor socioeconomic conditions of the patient. In lowdefines maternal death as “The death of a woman while preg- and middle-income countries, less than half of all pregnant nant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespec- women have a minimum of four antenatal care visits [3]

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