WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE MORBIDITY AND TREATMENT-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR IN INDIA

Autor:	S. C. Gulati, Raghubansh M. Singh, Alok Ranjan Chaurasia
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Gynecology medicine.medical_specialty Treatment seeking business.industry Reproductive tract Sterilization (medicine) Epidemiology Health care medicine business Socioeconomic status Demography Reproductive health Multinomial logistic regression
Zdroj:	Asian Population Studies. 5:61-84
ISSN:	1744-1749 1744-1730
Popis:	The study highlights net effects of selected socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors on the prevalence and treatment-seeking behaviour for reproductive morbidity in India on the basis of self-reported reproductive health problems elicited from 84,862 currently married women aged 15–49 in the second National Family Health Survey, 1998–1999 (NFHS-2). Information was elicited on treatment sought, if any, from private or public health service providers from 34,034 women suffering from reproductive tract infections (RTIs). The study employed binary and multinomial logit regression techniques for respectively analysing prevalence and treatment-seeking behaviour. The prevalence of RTIs in India is quite high (40 per cent) and the treatment-seeking is extremely low (33 per cent). Usage of female sterilization and Intra-Uterine Device (IUD) significantly compounds the reproductive morbidity in India, possibly because of negligence in post-operative or post-insertion care. Women suffering from abdominal pa...
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