Impact Evaluation of Maternal-Child Health and Family Planning Services Utilization in Rural Uttar Pradesh (India)
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چکیده
Does utilization of antenatal care services influence the use of succeeding institutional delivery, post natal care services and modern contraceptive use among women in rural Uttar Pradesh? And if so, to what extent MCH services as a package influence the use of modern methods of family planning. The answers to these questions have important implications for reproductive health programme which assumes a strong association between its two domains. If propensity for adopting modern contraception were to be related to the coverage of MCH services, the pace of improvement in contraceptive prevalence might be accelerated through increasing the population coverage and intensity of MCH services.
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