Strategies to Improve Child Immunization via Antenatal Care Visits in India: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Numerous studies have examined the empirical evidence concerning the influence of demographic and socio-economic factors influencing child immunization, but no documentation is available which shows the actual impact of antenatal care (ANC) visits on subsequent child immunization. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the net impact of ANC visits on subsequent utilization of child immunization after removing the presence of selection bias. Nationwide data from India's latest National Family Health Survey conducted during 2005-06 is used for the present study. The analysis has been carried out in the two separate models, in the first model 1-2 ANC visit and in the second model three or more ANC visits has been compared with no visit. We have used propensity score matching method with a coun

SUBMITTER: Dixit P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3688852 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature