Open AccessDeterminants of home deliveries - Findings from India DLHS 4 analysis
Author(s) -
Prafulla Kumar Swain,
Priyanka Singh,
Subhadra Priyadarshini
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_751_20
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , birth order , demography , parity (physics) , wife , government (linguistics) , marital status , environmental health , population , linguistics , philosophy , physics , particle physics , sociology , political science , law
Place of delivery has major implication on decreasing maternal morbidity and mortality. India has adopted various policies to encourage institutional births, still there are large numbers of deliveries which occur at home. Thus, it is imperative to understand the risk factors associated with home deliveries among women in India.