Effect of Maternal Health Care Utilization on Early Neonatal, Neonatal and Post Neonatal Mortality in India

Three neonates are dying every minute in India and every 4th baby born is low birth weight out of 3.9 million neonatal deaths worldwide, India is accounting 1.2 million or nearly 30 percent of global neonatal mortality. In India 39 % of neonatal death occurs within 24 hour of the birth and 57.5% death occurs within first three days. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of maternal health care utilization on early neonatal, neonatal and post neonatal mortality in India. Data from the cross –sectional, population based NFHS-3(2005-06) was used. Both bi-variate and multivariate techniques were used to examine the effect of antenatal care, safe delivery and post natal care on early neonatal, neonatal and post neonatal mortality. The result of the logistic regression shows that ante natal care has significant impact on early neonatal and neonatal mortality and it is also found that public hospital less relative risk than private sector deliveries. Those women who had taken the post natal care the risk of early neonatal, neonatal and post neonatal are less likely in comparison to those who not received the post natal care.