Open AccessSocio-Economic Factors Affecting The Maternal Health In Rural Areas Of District Layyah, Pakistan
Author(s) -
Ghulam Abbas,
Naseer Ahmad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
statistics, computing and interdisciplinary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2788-7464
pISSN - 2707-7101
DOI - 10.52700/scir.v2i2.12
Subject(s) - rural area , socioeconomics , maternal health , environmental health , unavailability , geography , rural district , rural health , medicine , economic growth , health services , population , sociology , pathology , economics , engineering , reliability engineering
The present quantitative study was conducted to explore the socio-economic factors affecting on the maternal health in the rural areas of District Layyah. The universe of the present study consisted of the all the fertile women those were able to reproduce. 150 women were selected from the rural areas of the research areas through systematic random sampling. Description of the data and analysis was done through SPSS. It was concluded that the early marriages, low level of education and income, unavailability of the maternal homes and general hospitals, far away of the hospitals, and the absence of doctors and gynecologists in the rural areas and the traditional methods of delivery cases are the major causes of the low level of maternal health in the rural areas of the study area. It was recommended that to improve the maternal health education and income level should be raised and awareness should be given in the study areas.