Does engagement with frontline health workers improve maternal and child healthcare utilisation and outcomes in India?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poor Maternal and Child Health (MCH) outcomes pose challenges to India's ability to attain Goal-3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The government of India strengthened the existing network of frontline health workers (FHWs), under its National Rural Health Mission in 2005 and subsequent National Urban Health Mission in 2013 as a strategy to mitigate the shortage of skilled health workers and to provide affordable healthcare services. However, there is a lack of robust national-level empirical analysis on the role of maternal engagement with FHWs in influencing the level of maternal and child health care utilisation and child health outcomes in India.

Methods

Using data from the nationally representative Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-

SUBMITTER: Rammohan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8017836 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature