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A quantitative perspective of the maternal health care status of Assam, India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey–4 and 5

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Business Administration, NERIM Group of Institutions, Guwahati, Assam, India

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 11, Issue (2), Pages 12-21, April,14 (2022)

Abstract

Maternal health acts as vital indicator in ascertaining the health and status of women. Reinforcing of maternal health care that encompasses antenatal care, natal care and postnatal care is indispensable to corroborate safe motherhood. Maternal health has been becoming a universal consternation because the lives of millions of women in reproductive age can be safeguarded through adequate maternal health care services. Situated within this background a persuasion was aimed to understand the status of maternal health care and to quantify the district wise coverage of maternal health care facilities of Assam, a state in north eastern part of the country, based on the secondary sources in general and the data furnished by National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4, 2015-16) in particular. A comparative study based on NFHS-4 (2015-16) and NFHS-5 (2019-20) will be performed for the mothers belonging to the stratum of districts of very low utilization of maternal health service. The study attempts to explore various socioeconomic factors that attribute to the significantly large share in skimpy utilization of maternal health care and findings will be conducive for administering public health budget to different districts so as to diminish the gaps of dispensing medical facilities among the vulnerable mothers of Assam.

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