Health and Nutrition of Women and Children in Empowered Action Group States of India

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MCH)-part of SDG3-in empowered action group states in India. It lays bare regional disparities and unfolds a range of issues relating to inequalities in access to MCH services, complex dynamics behind poor nutrition, health expenditure and impoverishment, structural bottlenecks of health system that hinder effective implementation of programmes; best practices adopted for improving MNCH indicators and appropriate strategies required for more informed policy. The volume: - Examines the changing features of health and nutrition of mothers, new-borns and children between pre and post National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) - Studies reproductive health and well-being of mother and children - Explores linkages between food, nutrition and health - Examines the underlying factors determining poor health and nutrition - Probes into health expenditure, their impoverishment and its bearing on access to maternal and child healthcare services - Proposes strategic interventions to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality and improve nutritional status The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of public health, especially maternal and child health specialists, gender studies, development studies and public policy.

Sandhya R Mahapatro is Assistant Professor, Economics Division, at the A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, India. She pursued her doctoral and postdoctoral research in migration studies. Her current research areas include issues related to health economics, migration, maternal and child health and gender. Udaya S Mishra, a Statistician/Demographer, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India, with research contributions in the areas of aging, health and nutrition, in addition to population policy and programme evaluation. His current research interest includes measurement issues in health and equity focusing on the evaluation of outcomes. Shubh Swain is an implementation scientist and a policy thought leader in the multi-sectoral areas of gender, nutrition, food systems and global health. He has worked in several regions, including South Asia and East Africa. He works as a Research Associate at the Tata Cornell Institute, Cornell University, USA. Shubh's current work focuses on developing strategies to involve men in achieving better nutritional status for women in low- and middle-income countries.

Introduction. Part I: Regional pattern, Causes and Implications. 1. Maternal Mortality: Role of EAG States 2. Nutritional, bio-demographic and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in the EAG states of India 3. Disparities in Health Outcome of Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India: A Panel Data Approach Part II: Access and Utilisation: Gaps and Challenges 4. Differential Access to Maternal and Child Health Across Social Groups-Issues and Challenges of Discrimination 5. Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India and EAG states 6. Place of Hospitalization, Residence, and its Effect on Caesarean Section Out-Of-Pocket Expenditurein India 7. Understanding Maternal Health Care Deprivation in Bihar Part III: Nutrition and Well being 8. Nutrition Status of Mothers and Children: Trends and Determinants 9. Association between parental migration and undernutrition among the children left behind in rural Empowered Action Group (EAG) States, India 10. Utilisation of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and Nutritional Outcomes in Empowered Action Group (EAG) states of India; Evidence from Two National Surveys 11. Implication of household food Security on Child health - Evidence from Rural Jharkhand Part IV: Health Governance, Policies and Programmes 12. Factors affecting inequity in institutional delivery and choice of providers: the role of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Bihar 13. Men's role in unpaid work and maternal health care in India: How far women get support from men? 14. Quality of Maternal Health care in Public Hospitals of Uttar Pradesh: A Case Study of selected facilities of Lucknow district 15. Assessment of Health System Governance (HSG) in Empowered Action Group (EAG) States in India. Emerging Concerns and the Way Forward.