PMID- 27790466
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240326
IS  - 2249-782X (Print)
IS  - 0973-709X (Electronic)
IS  - 0973-709X (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 9
DP  - 2016 Sep
TI  - Maternal Health Situation in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh: A Comparative Analysis of 
      State Fact Sheets of National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 and 4.
PG  - IE01-IE04
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Maternal health constitutes the health of women during pregnancy, 
      childbirth and the postpartum period. Bihar and Madhya Pradesh (MP) constitute 
      the Empowered Action Group (EAG) states under National Rural Health Mission 
      (NRHM) and are consistently having poor maternal health indicators. AIM: The main 
      objective of this study was to assess the maternal health situation of Bihar and 
      MP based on National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) and 4 fact sheets. MATERIALS 
      AND METHODS: The study adopted a narrative description in which the NFHS fact 
      sheets (NFHS-3 & 4) of both these states were obtained from appropriate sources 
      and compared for various maternal health indicators. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: 
      Albeit progress has been observed from NFHS-3 to NFHS-4 however, the progress is 
      very dismal compared with the progress of other similar Indian states. Relatively 
      MP has shown better progress compared to Bihar. Poor performance is being 
      observed in all the three levels of maternal health; pregnancy Ante-Natal Care 
      (ANC), Tetanus toxoid (TT) and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA), child birth 
      (Institutional delivery by Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA), Caesarean Section (CS) 
      and post partum care (hospital stay and Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY). The poor 
      performance of both these states in all these indicators requires multipronged 
      approach strong political will, health system strengthening, community 
      mobilization and awareness. CONCLUSION: Given the status of maternal health in 
      India and more especially in states BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, 
      Uttar Pradesh) and EAG states (Empowered action group), improvement in the 
      performance of maternal health related activities is highly necessary.
FAU - Dehury, Ranjit Kumar
AU  - Dehury RK
AD  - Faculty, Department of Healthcare Management, Goa Institute of Management , 
      Panaji, Goa, India .
FAU - Samal, Janmejaya
AU  - Samal J
AD  - Independent Public Health Researcher, Based in Pune, Maharashtra, India .
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20160901
PL  - India
TA  - J Clin Diagn Res
JT  - Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR
JID - 101488993
PMC - PMC5071966
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Antenatal care
OT  - BIMARU states
OT  - Delivery care
OT  - Empowered action group
OT  - Post partum care
EDAT- 2016/10/30 06:00
MHDA- 2016/10/30 06:01
PMCR- 2016/11/01
CRDT- 2016/10/30 06:00
PHST- 2016/01/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/03/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/10/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/10/30 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/10/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.7860/JCDR/2016/19079.8404 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Sep;10(9):IE01-IE04. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/19079.8404. 
      Epub 2016 Sep 1.