Does the treatment seeking behavior impinge on reproductive morbidity? A study among women in the Eastern states of India

The objective of the study is to focus the selected morbidity pattern among the married women (15-49) and their treatment seeking behaviors of eastern states of India. Data have been used for this study obtained from the DLHS (2007-08). Bi-variate and Multivariate analysis have been used for this study. Result shows that the women from rural background are more suffer from menstruation and reproductive tract infections. Education has a positive impact on reproductive morbidity. Less than 10 years of education menstruation (24.4%) and reproductive tract infection (20.2%) both are high than women having above 10 years of education. Result of binary logistic regression shows that women residing in urban area are about 13% and 12 % less likely to have menstruation problems and RTI respectively. Women’s caste and education also found significant in this context. Women marring bellow 18 years shows higher chances to have menstruation and RTI related problems.