Volume-X, Issue-IV, July 2024 |
Performance Assessment of Maternal Health Care Services Provided in the Marginal District of West Bengal: A Case Study of Dakshin Dinajpur District Arup Kr Saha, Assistant Professor, Dept of Geography, Chandrapur College, Chandrapur, West Bengal Dr. Narayan Ch. Jana, Professor, Dept of Geography, The university of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal |
Received: 15.07.2024 | Accepted: 21.07.2024 | Published Online: 31.07.2024 | Page No: 90-105 | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.10.issue.04W.011 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
Public health is a very important issue for any country in the current geopolitical situation. As in the present day the awareness of health increases among the public, the state also shows more interest in maintaining the good health of its public. Issues that naturally come up in discussions about public Health infrastructure, Child health, Maternal Family planning and disease burden. Among these maternal health is a very important issue that should be given more importance in the present time. The health of the future citizens of any country depends on the provision of proper services related to maternal health, because a mother is responsible for bringing the future citizens of the state into the world. Actually maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. In order to gain complete knowledge about the maternal health status of a region, a comprehensive review of various aspects related to maternal health such as antenatal care, delivery care and maternal mortality is required. In developing countries, maternal health infrastructure and services have not yet reached the highest level. As a result various problems associated with maternal health are now observed in developing countries. These issues motivate the health research to study maternal health. The present study attempts to make a thorough assessment of maternal health in Dakshin Dinajpur district. For this assessment various special and temporal data have been compiled mainly from various secondary sources. Besides, some qualitative methods such as focus groups discussion and in-depth interviews have been used to understand maternal health status. GIS techniques also have been used for data presentation. The main objective of the study was to highlight the various issues of maternal health in Dakshin Dinajpur district through a spatio -temporal review and highlights its various deficiency and inequalities, and of course, to make some rational recommendation about what to do in the future to make the maternal health system more accessible to delivery mothers. If this study was carried out over a longer period and with the help of various primary data, more aspects could have been revealed. This is a limitation for this study. Keywords: Maternal health, Antenatal care, Delivery care, Postnatal care, IUCD. |