Variation in use of basic maternity care in assam: pillar of safe motherhood to reduce maternal mortality rate

Basic Maternity Care comprising of important determinants of antenatal care and safe delivery is very essential to ensure smooth pregnancy and reduce complications during child delivery. It has an important role in reducing maternal mortality rate (MMR) by creating a Safe motherhood. But in spite of Safe motherhood program intervention, it could be noticed that equal access to antenatal health care and safe delivery by all women has not been achieved which is reflected with maternal death being highly noticed in developing countries and within the states like Assam being the highest in maternal mortality rate compared to other states in India. Variation in use of these health care services was found among the women in the study due to different factors affecting in utilizing these services of Basic Maternity Care. Education, religion and residence were the significant factors impacting on its use with large variation among the women. Results were analyzed using the information from the secondary source, National Family Health Survey-4(2015-16) of Assam, Government of India. Further studies will help to develop policies and interventions to reduce these variations by targeting those women who are deprived of adequate use of these services with more focus into the rural women.