About 0.75 million neonates die every year in India, the highest for any country in the world.
The neonatal mortality rate (NMR) declined from 52 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 28 per …

Maternal vaccination has been evaluated and found to be extremely effective at preventing
illness in pregnant women and new-borns; however, uptake of such programmes has been …

One could well assume that the contours of the postcolonial anti-natalist state is a given,
rarely noticed by the surrogates themselves. As James Scott poetically noted in Weapons of …

Introduction: Utilization of antenatal care, institutional delivery and postnatal care services in
Nigeria are poor even by african average. Methods: We analysed the 2013 Nigeria DHS to …

Background Maternal health remains a major public health problem in India, with large inter-
and intra-state inequities in maternal health service use and maternal deaths. The …

Background Skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial for decreasing maternal and neonatal
mortality, yet many women in low-and middle-income countries deliver outside of health …

Background Utilization of maternal health services is associated with improved maternal and
neonatal health outcomes. Considering global and national interests in the Millennium …

Title. Factors affecting the utilization of antenatal care in developing countries: systematic
review of the literature. Aim. This paper is a report of a systematic review to identify and …

Background Coupled with the largest number of maternal deaths, adolescent pregnancy in
India has received paramount importance due to early age at marriage and low …

There is a growing literature on health seeking behaviours and the determinants of health
services utilization especially in the context of developing countries. However, very few …