The Maternal Factor: Associations Between Maternal Health Characteristics And Child And Family Health Habits.

SummaryThe present paper examines the association between the type of household and maternal health in India using data from the National Family Health Survey 1998–99. The indicators of maternal health used in the analysis are contraceptive use, visit to obtain antenatal care in the first trimester, safe delivery and nutritional status of women measured in terms of body mass index (BMI). Binary and multinomial logistic regressions are used to establish associations. The type of household is coded into three categories, viz. nuclear household, joint household with in-laws and joint household without in-laws. The other independent variables used in the analysis are age, children ever born, work status, education of women, religion, caste, standard of living, exposure to mass media, women’s autonomy and presence of others at the time of interview. The findings clearly suggest that type of household is significantly associated with the utilization of the above-mentioned services that positively affect maternal health. Women in nuclear households are more likely to utilize these services compared with women in joint households. However, an association between type of household and BMI was not found.

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Appearance of “Mental Hygiene” in Japan's Theory of Prenatal Care at the Beginning of the 20th Century- The Fusion of Public Hygiene and Eugenics: A Book Review

Iranian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.18502/ijph.v51i1.8291 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Yi-Jin Park ◽

Sam-Hun Park

Keyword(s):

Maternal Health ◽

Prenatal Care ◽

20Th Century ◽

Mental Hygiene ◽

Family Health ◽

Scientific Basis ◽

Historical Background ◽

The Public ◽

Modern Family ◽

Spouse Selection

The Motherhood Protection Act (1996), which corresponds to modern family health in Japan, was enacted based on the Eugenics Protection Law (1948) for the protection of national eugenics. This leads us to the question of how maternal health and eugenics began to merge in Japan. Answer of this will elucidate the characteristics of family health in Japan and historical background. Maternal health and eugenics began to be fused in Japan in the early 20th century. In this paper, we examined Taikyō, which is the source of this fusion. This book was widely disseminated to the public. An educational book influenced the Japanese women’s movement. Taikyō argued that from the standpoint of public health, responsibility for prenatal care should be extended to the husband, family, society and the nation. It emphasized that “mental hygiene” is necessary to produce a genetically good child, and that spouse selection is important. Books on prenatal care published in the first half of the 20th century, following Taikyō’s description of prenatal care as a form of eugenics. The National Eugenic Act enacted to protect national hygiene inspired the classification of the Japanese as a chosen nation. The theory of prenatal care, which was created from the combination of public hygiene and eugenics, provided a justification for the National Eugenic Act, and this still serves as the basis for the Eugenics Protection Law and Motherhood Protection Act. It provides the “scientific basis” for recognizing that “unsanitary” and “disability” are bad.

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A comparison of the maternal health conditions in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh using the state fact sheets of national family health survey (NFHS)-3 and 4

Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR) ◽

10.5958/2278-4853.2020.00294.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 124-133

Author(s):

Swapana John ◽

Prakash Chand Sharma

Keyword(s):

Maternal Health ◽

Health Survey ◽

Family Health ◽

Uttar Pradesh ◽

The State ◽

Health Conditions ◽

National Family Health Survey ◽

National Family

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Maternal Health in Haryana: Evidences from NFHS

Journal of Chemistry Environmental Sciences and its Applications ◽

10.15415/jce.2017.41005 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 31-35

Author(s):

Ms Poonam Sandhir

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Maternal Health ◽

Family Health ◽

Maternal Health Care ◽

National Family Health Survey ◽

National Family ◽

Education Of Women ◽

Health Care Indicators ◽

Fourth Round ◽

Better Than

The paper is based on National Family Health Survey (NFHS) Haryana data collected during third and fourth round of survey. In terms of maternal health care indicators like ANC, IFA consumption, TT, assisted births, institutional births and PNC, Haryana performed better than India for parameters like TT, assisted deliveries and PNC; at par for IFA tablets and lower for ANC and institutional deliveries. Punjab was ahead of Haryana in terms of all these parameters. All these maternal health care indicators had a positive relationship with the raise in the educational level of the women. With the education the awareness level of women gets enhanced and they understand the importance of vital factors than their uneducated counterparts. Our policy planners and programme implementers should keep this important point well in mind that education is the key to easy eradication of all these problems and education of women will assist in achieving better results.

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