Impact Of Maternal Health Services On The Socio Economic Conditions Of Women

Abstract

Maternal health care services are the leading health programmes. According to WHO maternal and child health services can be defined as “Promoting, preventing, therapeutic or rehabilitation facility or care for the mother and child”. Maternal health care is typically patterned on socioeconomic and cultural contours. In the present study we observe that now a days people are going for health check-ups whether they were illiterate or educated but the ratio of going for regular check-ups for antenatal visits were totally depends on their socio-economic status as shown in this study. The study is located in Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh, in which it contains three blocks of namely Keshwapur, Majhilapur, and Sarai Inayat. It captures the antenatal care services and their utilisation. Besides constructing a socio-economic narrative of the study I also have shown the effect of education in there antenatal visit, most of the respondents were going for their check-ups. Almost 80% of the women visits for ANC. Total thirty samples were carried out and stratified random sampling were done to select respondents from each block. In this study we had come to know that people are aware of further health complications in pregnancy so they visit to nearest primary health care centre and almost 73% women receive the antenatal services at least once during their pregnancy. The result reveals that altogether 53 % women got married at the age before 15 to 20 years. The majority were got married before they become mature or before 18 years old. Early marriage is the biggest reasons for the maternal deaths in India. The present study arrives at argument that Antenatal care are provided by the government in free of cost but the people are not aware of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY). It could be summarised in the following words that the factor responsible for utilisation of antenatal services among the people is based on their socio-economic status