PMID- 35139830
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220419
LR  - 20220419
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Feb 9
TI  - Disparities in three critical maternal health indicators amongst Muslims: 
      Vis-a-vis the results reflected on National Health Mission.
PG  - 266
LID - 10.1186/s12889-022-12662-7 [doi]
LID - 266
AB  - BACKGROUND: The post national health mission era has been recognized for India's 
      accelerating improvement in maternal health care utilization. Concurrent 
      investigations with the purview of examining inequalities in maternal care 
      utilisation have rigorously examined across various socio-economic groups, 
      focusing on Muslim women. The present study examined socio-economic differentials 
      in maternal health care utilisation among Muslims and the delineated factors 
      which are contributing for these inequalities. METHODS: Study used the data from 
      National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 2005-06 and 2015-16. the 
      present study applied concentration index and Wagstaff-type decomposition 
      analysis to measure and decompose the inequality in maternal health services. 
      RESULTS: This study found that utilisation of full antenatal care (full ANC), 
      skilled attendants at birth (SBAs) and postnatal care was increased during 
      2005-06 to 2015-16. However, the least improvement was observed in full antenatal 
      care whereas substantial improvement was achieved in utilising skilled attendants 
      at birth. Further, the poor and non-poor gap in maternal health care utilisation 
      mostly prevailed among the educated, urban resident, other backward castes among 
      Muslims. The inequality has been declined largely in SBA utilisation compared to 
      full ANC and PNC, especially in the southern India. Higher education, mass media 
      exposure, higher birth order and urban residence contribute and explain most of 
      these inequalities in maternal care among Muslim women CONCLUSIONS: Despite the 
      fact that free and cash benefitted health programmes, wealth, mass media exposure 
      and education etc welfare programs benefitted a large number of citizens, it also 
      produced most of the inequalities among Muslims in India. The results focus on 
      the significance of wealth, education, and mass media exposure in bridging the 
      socioeconomic gap in maternal health care utilization among Muslims.
CI  - (c) 2022. The Author(s).
FAU - Sk, Md Illias Kanchan
AU  - Sk MIK
AD  - International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
FAU - Ali, Balhasan
AU  - Ali B
AD  - International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. 
      alihasancs92@gmail.com.
FAU - Biswas, Mohai Menul
AU  - Biswas MM
AD  - International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
FAU - Saha, Mrinal Kanti
AU  - Saha MK
AD  - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220209
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Female
MH  - Healthcare Disparities
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Islam
MH  - *Maternal Health
MH  - *Maternal Health Services
MH  - Patient Acceptance of Health Care
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Prenatal Care
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
PMC - PMC8830117
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - India
OT  - Inequality
OT  - Maternal care
OT  - Muslim
OT  - Poor
COIS- We declare that We have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2022/02/11 06:00
MHDA- 2022/04/20 06:00
PMCR- 2022/02/09
CRDT- 2022/02/10 05:29
PHST- 2021/08/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/10 05:29 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/02/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/04/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/02/09 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-022-12662-7 [pii]
AID - 12662 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-022-12662-7 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2022 Feb 9;22(1):266. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12662-7.