1Deptt. of Community Medicine, UFHT Medical College, Haldwani, Nainital, Uttarakhand.
2Deptt. of Community Medicine, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Gaziabad, U.P..
3NIHFW, New Delhi.
4Deptt. of Community Medicine, UFHT Medical College, Haldwani, Nainital, Uttarakhand.
5Deptt. of SPM, S.N. Medical College, Agra.
The maternal & child health services in India have been initiated strengthened and expanded over the years and are still underutilized.
To know the level of quality maternity care in urban slums of Agra.
Cross-sectional community based.
Urban slums of district Agra.
Married women aged 15–49 years, who had delivered a child during last one year interviewed at home.
Software like Systat-12 for analysis and tests of significance like chi- square test were utilized.
Only 16.1% of women had 3 or more ANC visits and 3.6% had their first visit during first trimester. The antenatal check-ups influenced with the educational level of mothers (p<0.001). 44.4% of women received postnatal care, in spite of that 73.3% of delivery conducted by a trained health staff. Only 2.5% of women received three post-natal visits. Only one quarter of women (27.8%) received a health check-up in the first 24 hours after birth and 39.7% received a health check-up within the critical first week after delivery. The likelihood of a birth being followed by a postnatal check-up at all and within week increases with the educational level of mothers (p<0.001).
Maternal care, Antenatal care, Post-natal care, Male involvement Millennium Development Goals
