Trends and determinants of maternal health services utilization in India from 2015 to 2021.

ABSTRACT: Continuum of care (CoC) in maternal health services refers to a pathway spanning from pregnancy and childbirth to post-pregnancy, covering routine antenatal care (ANC), institutional delivery (ID), and post-natal services (PNC). The current study aims to investigate the distribution, trends, dropouts, and determinants of maternal health services (ANC, ID, and PNC) utilization along the CoC pathway using NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 datasets from 2015 to 2021. The binary logistic regression examined the association between the continuum of maternal health services utilization and the predictor variables. The complete CoC utilization was 50% during NFHS 5, an 11.3%-point increase from NFHS-4. During the same period, the largest dropout was in the uptake of full ANC (41.5%). Odds of completing CoC were

SUBMITTER: Longchar W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11779886 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature