Non-medical Determinants of Maternal Death in India

Murthy, Nirmala; Barua, Alka

doi:10.1177/097206340400600103

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“…According to recent estimates, the leading cause of maternal deaths in India is postpartum haemorrhage (38 per cent), followed by sepsis (11 per cent) and abortion (8 per cent) (SRS 2006). Studies in India have revealed that the postpartum period is the riskiest period and maternal deaths occur mainly at home because of delay in recognising complications due to inadequate awareness and availability of transport, medical facilities or personnel (Maitra 2001;Murthy and Barua 2004). The delay in recognising complications due to inadequate awareness signifi es the importance of making TBAs and women in general aware of the main signs of complications and the simple means of managing these.…”

Section: Recognising and Managing Maternal Complicationsmentioning

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Birthing Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in South Asia in the Context of Training Programmes

Saravanan¹,

Turrell

Johnson

et al. 2010

Journal of Health Management

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Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) training has been an important component of public health policy interventions to improve maternal and child health in developing countries since the 1970s. More recently, since the 1990s, the TBA training strategy has been increasingly seen as irrelevant, ineffective or, on the whole, a failure due to evidence that the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in developing countries had not reduced. Although, worldwide data show that, by choice or out of necessity, 47 percent of births in the developing world are assisted by TBAs and/or family members, funding for TBA training has been reduced and moved to providing skilled birth attendants for all births. Any shift in policy needs to be supported by appropriate evidence on TBA roles in providing maternal and infant health care service and effectiveness of the training programmes.This article reviews literature on the characteristics and role of TBAs in South Asia with an emphasis on India. The aim was to assess the contribution of TBAs in providing maternal and infant health care service at different stages of pregnancy and after-delivery and birthing practices adopted in home births. The review of role revealed that apart from TBAs, there are various other people in the community also involved in making decisions about the welfare and health of the birthing mother and new born baby. However, TBAs have changing, localised but nonetheless signifi cant roles in delivery, postnatal and infant care in India. Certain traditional birthing practices such as bathing babies immediately after birth, not weighing babies after birth and not feeding with colostrum are adopted in home births as well as health institutions in India. There is therefore a thin precarious balance between Acknowledgements: Dr Carla Patterson was involved in conceptualizing the PhD thesis. Sadly she passed away in August 2005 and was unable to share the results of her study.

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Section: Recognising and Managing Maternal Complicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Birthing Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in South Asia in the Context of Training Programmes

Saravanan¹,

Turrell

Johnson

et al. 2010

Journal of Health Management

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“…In Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, the states of India, women who did not seek care for complications experienced during pregnancy cited lack of mobility and lack of resources as reasons while those who did not seek care for complications experienced in the postpartum stage cited lack of resources as the reason (Murthy and Barua, 2001).…”

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Does Non-ANC Influence Complications during Delivery among Women in Slums in Greater Mumbai ?

Sarode¹

2014

ME-JFM

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This study uses primary data, collected using cluster sampling of sample size of 433 reproductive women who have given at least one live birth prior to survey on antenatal care, reproductive health problems during pregnancy and complications generated while child delivery from Rafi Nagar slum. The paper examines utilization of health services available to study women in slums in Mumbai and checks whether non-utilization of ANC and having reproductive health problems during pregnancy creates complications during child delivery on the basis of standard of living index constructed from household amenities. The findings using logistic regression reveals that those illiterate women did not go for ANC and having reproductive health problems during pregnancy, creates complications during child delivery. Besides, unimaginable low level of health utilization services was observed. This paper suggests that awareness is required at every stages of ANC, particularly to illiterate women for betterment of reproductive health during pregnancy.

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“…On the other hand, Pillai [5] linked that family planning and health services also have effect on mortality and reproductive health. In a study carried out by Murthy and Barua [6] explored that most deaths in India occurred at home and during the prenatal period. Educated woman is indicated as more maternal health care in practice with a high standard of living in India [7].…”

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Factors influencing prospective mother with prenatal qualified doctor care among the reproductive women in Bangladesh

Kiser

Nasrin

2018

Health Inf Sci Syst

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Maternal and child mortality are the key indicators of health and development of the country. Maternal and child health are interconnected to prenatal care. Consulting a doctor at the prenatal stage will not only ensure mother's and her unborn babies' safety, but also has a great influence to reduce the maternal and infant mortality. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the status of prenatal care provided by the qualified doctor among pregnant mothers in Bangladesh. Data and required information of 8793 reproductive women were collected from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2014. Logistic regression model has been used to identify the most significant determinants of the prenatal doctor visits. In this research, it is found that prenatal cares by a qualified doctor during pregnancy depend on several social and demographic characteristics of a woman. It is observed that women staying both urban and rural areas have similar behaviour of caring regarding their pregnancy related complications. Beside this Respondent's age, education, her husband's education and the number of ever born children have significant contribution on prenatal doctor visit. On the other hand, division, religion, husband's desire for children has no effect on it. Overall the model is able to predict 71.65% women into their appropriate group based on these factors.

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Non-medical Determinants of Maternal Death in India

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Birthing Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in South Asia in the Context of Training Programmes

Birthing Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in South Asia in the Context of Training Programmes

Does Non-ANC Influence Complications during Delivery among Women in Slums in Greater Mumbai ?

Factors influencing prospective mother with prenatal qualified doctor care among the reproductive women in Bangladesh

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