Open AccessAll slums are not equal: Maternal health conditions among two urban slum dwellers
Author(s) -
Zulfia Khan,
Saira Mehnaz,
A. R. Siddiqui,
Athar Ansari,
Salman Khalil,
Sandeep Sachdeva
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.94027
Subject(s) - slum , environmental health , hazardous waste , empowerment , medicine , health care , health facility , socioeconomics , maternal health , geography , health services , population , economic growth , ecology , sociology , economics , biology
Pregnant women inhabiting urban slums are a "high risk" group with limited access to health facilities. Hazardous maternal health practices are rampant in slum areas. Barriers to utilization of health services are well documented. Slums in the same city may differ from one another in their health indicators and service utilization rates. The study examines whether hazardous maternal care practices exist in and whether there are differences in the utilization rates of health services in two different slums.