Maternal socio-economic indices for prenatal care research in rural China

Family Socio-Economic Status and Maternal Health Care Seeking Behaviour in Rural Bangladesh

This study mainly aims to explore and examine the relationship between family socio-economic status and maternal health care seeking behaviour in rural Bangladesh. This is a total of 200 eligible couples were selected from 3 villages namely Rathni, Beurjari and Udaipur of Baliadangi Upazila through simple random sampling. The selected couples were interviewed by questionnaire method. Frequency ...

Perinatal Health and Maternal Care in Rural China

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Economic Inequalities in Maternal Health Care: Prenatal Care and Skilled Birth Attendance in India, 1992–2006

BACKGROUND The use of maternal health care is limited in India despite several programmatic efforts for its improvement since the late 1980's. The use of maternal health care is typically patterned on socioeconomic and cultural contours. However, there is no clear perspective about how socioeconomic differences over time have contributed towards the use of maternal health care in India. METHO...

Socio-economic support for good health in rural Malawi.

OBJECTIVE To study the socio-economic support for good health among subsistence farmers in rural Malawi. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Lungwena, a rural area with 17,000 inhabitants in southern Malawi. PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred and ninety five pregnant women who attended the antenatal clinic at Lungwena Health Centre between June 1995 and September 1996. INTERVENTIONS Interv...

The Impact of Socio-economic Reform in Rural China on Reproductive Health Services