Author : Dipak Prasad Tiwari
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659230493
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Book Synopsis Utilization of Maternal Health Service in Squatter Settlements,Nepal by : Dipak Prasad Tiwari
Download or read book Utilization of Maternal Health Service in Squatter Settlements,Nepal written by Dipak Prasad Tiwari and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross sectional study was conducted to analyze the barriers and enabling factors affecting the use and non use of maternal health services especially among marginalized populations in urban slum areas in the Kathmandu valley. Total 200 mothers were interviewed in the study with the cluster sampling. The study found that many factors contribute to the maternal health utilization, among them education of mother, education of husband, distance to health services, parity of mother and ethnic category were determined by study. Similarly, the parity, occupation and ethnicity of mother influence the ANC utilization. The findings suggest that maternal health program need to develop explicit target social targeting strategy to intensify services to Dalit at squatter settlements and awareness raising program on "Aama Suraksha Program" could be beneficial to the improvement of maternal health services.