Accessibility and Utilisation of Maternal and Child Health Services among Rural BPL Households A Comparative Study in Tribal and Non Tribal Regions of Odisha

Abstract

Prosperity of a country and health of its citizens are robustly connected. Good health newlineincreases the productivity of the citizens and contributes to the economic growth of the newlinecountry. It is unquestionable that healthy human resources constitute the quantity and quality newlineof production. If these human resources do not possess basic standard of health, then the newlineproduction of the nation will be meager and the economy of the country will be adversely newlineaffected. A democratic government is bound by its moral obligation to provide basic health newlinecare facilities to its citizens through a systematic health service delivery system. Health being newlinecentral to one s life is accorded the status of a fundamental right. To improve the health newlinecondition of its human resources almost all countries have devised strategies to make their newlinehealth delivery system more responsive to the people in times of their dire needs. Emphasis newlinehas been given on strengthening the health service delivery system to cater to the health care newlineneeds of the mother and child. Maternal and child health (MCH) services are a part of overall newlinehealth care services which are intended to meet the health care demand of mothers and newlinechildren. MCH services work towards, among others, improving the survival rates of mothers newlineand children. newline