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The rise of institutional births in India: are maternal and newborn risks adequately addressed?

The rise of institutional births in India: are maternal and newborn risks adequately addressed?
The rise of institutional births in India: are maternal and newborn risks adequately addressed?
The government has successfully increased facility-based childbirth over the last decade, but are these hard pressed services successfully recognizing women’s health risks in pregnancy, birth, and post-partum stages? Is there an understanding of women’s health behaviour and the risks they perceive and prioritize? This chapter explores the quality of health services in two studies conducted nearly ten years apart in rural Karnataka, during which time there was a 47 per cent increase in institution-based births. This chapter shows that the healthcare system narrowly perceives risks within a biomedical framework as opposed to women’s more multidimensional view of risk. Furthermore, the process of identifying, assessing, and managing these health risks has not been located in an institutional framework of accountability that prioritizes its patients. This chapter proposes that the government must adopt a more culturally attuned approach that strengthens the quality and not simply the coverage of health services.
Oxford University Press
Kilaru, Asha
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Mahendra, Shanti
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Karachiwala, Baneen
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Matthews, Zoe
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Moor, Raphaelle
Gowda, Rajeev
Kilaru, Asha
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Mahendra, Shanti
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Karachiwala, Baneen
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Matthews, Zoe
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Moor, Raphaelle
Gowda, Rajeev

Kilaru, Asha, Mahendra, Shanti, Karachiwala, Baneen and Matthews, Zoe (2014) The rise of institutional births in India: are maternal and newborn risks adequately addressed? In, Moor, Raphaelle and Gowda, Rajeev (eds.) India's Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health, and Values. Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press. (doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199450459.003.0005).

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The government has successfully increased facility-based childbirth over the last decade, but are these hard pressed services successfully recognizing women’s health risks in pregnancy, birth, and post-partum stages? Is there an understanding of women’s health behaviour and the risks they perceive and prioritize? This chapter explores the quality of health services in two studies conducted nearly ten years apart in rural Karnataka, during which time there was a 47 per cent increase in institution-based births. This chapter shows that the healthcare system narrowly perceives risks within a biomedical framework as opposed to women’s more multidimensional view of risk. Furthermore, the process of identifying, assessing, and managing these health risks has not been located in an institutional framework of accountability that prioritizes its patients. This chapter proposes that the government must adopt a more culturally attuned approach that strengthens the quality and not simply the coverage of health services.

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Published date: 19 June 2014
Organisations: Social Statistics & Demography

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Local EPrints ID: 391221
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/391221
PURE UUID: 43279dea-06dd-45d5-9f51-fa0e8a446623
ORCID for Zoe Matthews: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1533-6618

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Date deposited: 21 Apr 2016 11:06
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

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Author: Asha Kilaru
Author: Shanti Mahendra
Author: Baneen Karachiwala
Author: Zoe Matthews ORCID iD
Editor: Raphaelle Moor
Editor: Rajeev Gowda

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