Utilization of Integrated Child Development Services in India: Programmatic Insights from National Family Health Survey, 2016.

ABSTRACT: The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program launched in India in 1975 is one of the world's largest flagship programs that aims to improve early childhood care and development via a range of healthcare, nutrition and early education services. The key to success of ICDS is in finding solutions to the historical challenges of geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to various services under this umbrella scheme. Using birth history data from the National Family Health Survey (Demographic and Health Survey), 2015-2016, this study presents (a) socioeconomic patterning in service uptake across rural and urban India, and (b) continuum in service utilization at three points (i.e., by mothers during pregnancy, by mothers while breastfeeding and by children aged 0-72 months

SUBMITTER: Rajpal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7246906 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature