Why women choose to give birth at home: a situational analysis from urban slums of Delhi.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Increasing institutional births is an important strategy for attaining Millennium Development Goal -5. However, rapid growth of low income and migrant populations in urban settings in low-income and middle-income countries, including India, presents unique challenges for programmes to improve utilisation of institutional care. Better understanding of the factors influencing home or institutional birth among the urban poor is urgently needed to enhance programme impact. To measure the prevalence of home and institutional births in an urban slum population and identify factors influencing these events.

Design

Cross-sectional survey using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Setting

Urban poor settlements in Delhi, India.

Participants

A house-to-house

SUBMITTER: Devasenapathy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4039791 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature