Examining the effect of household wealth and migration status on safe delivery care in urban India, 1992-2006.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another concern is, whether being poor and at the same time migrant leads to a double disadvantage in the utilization of maternal health services? This study aims to examine the trends and factors that affect safe delivery care utilization among the migrants and the poor in urban India.

Methodology/principal findings

Using data from the National Family Health Survey, 1992-93 and 2005-06, this study grouped the household wealth and migration status into four distinct categories poor-migrant, poor-non migrant, non poor-migrant, non poor-non migrant. Both chi-square test and binary

SUBMITTER: Singh PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3436793 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature