9. Original Scientific Paper
Abstract

The present study was conducted to understand the situation of maternal health care services in different states of India on the basis of NFHS-4 data. The study also tries to focus on Rural Urban differentials in maternal health care services in India. All the states of India and Delhi NCT were included in this study and all the Union Territories except Delhi were excluded. The present study considered only those ever married women, age range 15-49 years who conceived a baby within last five years. For maternal health care services, the study considered antenatal care, TT Vaccination, postnatal and delivery care. Statistical analysis has been carried out, and the p<0.05 and p<0.01 are considered as statistically significant. Present study depicts that in most of the cases rural women are deprived of maternal health care services compared to urban women and the differences are statistically significant in most of the states. The study depicts that maternal health care services are better utilized by urban women compared to rural women. It was also found that maternal healthcare scenario is better in Southern region states of India. Many of the states showed very poor results in terms of maternal health care and need immediate attention.

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