Maternal Health and Child Mortality : Condition, Vision and Challenges / Nitish Mondal, Kh. Narendra Singh

This volume containing articles on mother and child gives a fragment of a total vision on the prevailing situation of the health status of mother and child in India. The present volume brings together scholars and academicians from various disciplines and health professionals, policy makers and social scientists under the same umbrella for discussion and critical evaluation of current health situation and efficacy and role of healthcare programme related to maternal and child health in India. The present volume focuses to identify the major socio-economic, demographic and cultural factors affecting the maternal and child health issues especially among the vulnerable segments living in rural India. In order to control the maternal and child deaths in India, concentrated efforts need to be put to identify the major determinants of the population, better health education, women's empowerment, and strengthening health care system to provide timely and quality services, including emergency and obstetric care were also discussed in this edited volume.

Foreword by Prof. P. Dash Sharma

Preface

Acknowledgement

List of the contributors

SECTION- I Socio-Economic, Demographic and Double Burden of Maternal and child Health,

SECTION- II Maternal Health Status, Child Mortality and Human Rights Issues,

SECTION- III Reproductive Health, Indigenous Healthcare Practices and Health Service,

SECTION- IV Changing perspectives of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Status,

SECTION- V Recent Trends and Developments in Maternal and Child Healthcare,