Role of Urbanisation for Reproductive Health care Utilization: the case of Northeastern part of India

Present study investigates the main reason behind why is it reproductive health problems are relatively more in the Mongolian decent tribal dominated remote area of Northeastern India. It is well known that Northeastern part of India is lagging behind in almost all socio-economic indicators compared with mainland India, which is a serious concerned that probably linked with reproductive health care utilization. Three fundamental reproductive health care indicators like Antenatal care (ANC), Institutional Delivery (ID) and Postnatal care (PNC) are selected as independent variables to understand the ground reality of mother’s health seeking behaviour. Selected potential determinant variables includes: accessibility, poverty, availability of health care facility, female literacy, urbanisation and concentration of tribal population in the region. Various nationally representative data like: National Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS-3), Censuses of India-2001& 2011, Ministry of Transport & Highway and District Level Household Survey-3 (DLHS-3) are utilized for the analysis. Statistical validity like correlation coefficient has been tested by using SPSS-7, which proved that there exist significant relationship between reproductive health care utilization and urbanisation in this geographically isolated part of India.