Cover Image

Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.

Indian Muslims, compared to their counterparts from other religions, lag behind on several yardsticks related to socioeconomic progress and the same is true with maternal health care utilization. Due to low age at marriage among Muslims, a majority of births is ascribed to young (15-24 years) mothe...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Saradiya Mukherjee,, Rakesh Chandra,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8134/1/vol_4_no_2_2014_62.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8134/
http://www.ijphr.ukm.my/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-ukm.journal.8134
record_format eprints
spelling my-ukm.journal.81342016-12-14T06:46:19Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8134/ Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India. Saradiya Mukherjee, Rakesh Chandra, Indian Muslims, compared to their counterparts from other religions, lag behind on several yardsticks related to socioeconomic progress and the same is true with maternal health care utilization. Due to low age at marriage among Muslims, a majority of births is ascribed to young (15-24 years) mothers, which pose serious concerns on the maternal health care of Young Married Muslim women (YMMW). A thorough search of past literatures on Muslim women’s maternal health care reveals that the research on the determinants of maternal health care utilization among Muslim women is almost absent.Retrieving data from the National Family Health Survey -3 (2005-06) this study attempts to assess the level of utilization and factors effecting three key maternal health indicators [Full Antenatal Care (ANC), safe delivery and Postnatal Care (PNC)] among YMMW (15-24 years) in India. Bi-variate analysis and chi-square test was applied and variables which were found to be significant were further included in binary logistic regression.The findings of the study reveal abysmally low levels of utilization for all three indicators of maternal health care i.e. full ANC, safe delivery and PNC. Multivariate analysis reveals that no mass media exposure, lower autonomy,education, poor economic background, higher birth order and unintended pregnancy are some of the reasons behind low maternal health care utilization.The study suggests educating Muslim girls, promoting family planning use,involving media and collaboration between religious leader and health care system could be some important policy level interventions to address the unmet need of maternity services among YMMW. Existing government policies and programs should integrate YMMW who are poor and belong to backward states with poor demographic indicators. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014-06-23 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8134/1/vol_4_no_2_2014_62.pdf Saradiya Mukherjee, and Rakesh Chandra, (2014) Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India. International Journal of Public Health Research, 4 (2). pp. 480-493. ISSN 2232-0245 http://www.ijphr.ukm.my/
institution Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
building Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
content_source UKM Journal Article Repository
url_provider http://journalarticle.ukm.my/
language English
description Indian Muslims, compared to their counterparts from other religions, lag behind on several yardsticks related to socioeconomic progress and the same is true with maternal health care utilization. Due to low age at marriage among Muslims, a majority of births is ascribed to young (15-24 years) mothers, which pose serious concerns on the maternal health care of Young Married Muslim women (YMMW). A thorough search of past literatures on Muslim women’s maternal health care reveals that the research on the determinants of maternal health care utilization among Muslim women is almost absent.Retrieving data from the National Family Health Survey -3 (2005-06) this study attempts to assess the level of utilization and factors effecting three key maternal health indicators [Full Antenatal Care (ANC), safe delivery and Postnatal Care (PNC)] among YMMW (15-24 years) in India. Bi-variate analysis and chi-square test was applied and variables which were found to be significant were further included in binary logistic regression.The findings of the study reveal abysmally low levels of utilization for all three indicators of maternal health care i.e. full ANC, safe delivery and PNC. Multivariate analysis reveals that no mass media exposure, lower autonomy,education, poor economic background, higher birth order and unintended pregnancy are some of the reasons behind low maternal health care utilization.The study suggests educating Muslim girls, promoting family planning use,involving media and collaboration between religious leader and health care system could be some important policy level interventions to address the unmet need of maternity services among YMMW. Existing government policies and programs should integrate YMMW who are poor and belong to backward states with poor demographic indicators.
format Article
author Saradiya Mukherjee,
Rakesh Chandra,
spellingShingle Saradiya Mukherjee,
Rakesh Chandra,
Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.
author_facet Saradiya Mukherjee,
Rakesh Chandra,
author_sort Saradiya Mukherjee,
title Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.
title_short Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.
title_full Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.
title_fullStr Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of maternal care utilization among young Muslim women in India.
title_sort determinants of maternal care utilization among young muslim women in india.
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2014
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8134/1/vol_4_no_2_2014_62.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8134/
http://www.ijphr.ukm.my/
_version_ 1643737371934457856
score 13.211869

Similar Items