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Socio-economic determinants of maternal health
care service utilization under National Health
Mission in Indi taluk of Vijaypur District,
Karnataka State.
Seema G Elakoti
Research Scholar
Department Of Studies in Economics
Karnataka University
Dharwad.
Under Guidance
Dr. S.B Nari,
Associate Proffessor,
Department of Studies in Economics,
Karnataka Unviersity
Dharwad.
Abstract: Improving the well-being of mothers, infants, and children is an important public health goal for any
country. The well-being mother and child determine the health of the next generation and can help predict
future public health challenges for families, communities, and the health care system. In this background
NRHM(National Health Mission since 2013) was implemented in 2005 to provide affordable, accessible and
qualitative health care services to the rural population of the country by strengthening the rural health care
system by providing the basic health care infrastructure in the rural India. One of the important components of
the mission is to provide free maternal health care by reducing the financial burden of accessing maternal
healthcare services to the rural people through ASHA and by giving cash incentives and by increasing
institutional deliveries. Thus this paper intends to study the socio-economic determinants influencing the
utilization of maternal health care services among the beneficiaries NRHM in a rural areas of Vijaypur district.
The study has selected 4 Primary Health Centers in Indi taluk of Vijaypur district. Study area represents total
of 218 samples distributed in the study area. The study found that the access to maternal health care services