Open AccessA cross-sectional study of migrant women with reference to their antenatal care services utilization and delivery practices in an urban slum of Mumbai
Author(s) -
Vijay L. Badge,
Minal Pandey,
Mridula J Solanki,
Ratnendra Shinde
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/2249-4863.201157
Subject(s) - medicine , slum , cross sectional study , environmental health , population , pathology
Migrant is a vulnerable population. They face several barriers in accessing health services. The immigration status presents various challenges for maternity services utilization. So this study was conducted (1) to estimate proportion of women utilizing full ANC package and to find out reasons for its nonutilization (2) to estimate the proportion of institutional deliveries and reasons for home deliveries.