IJSRP, Volume 4, Issue 11, November 2014 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Kumar Chiman Sinha
Abstract:
The present paper examines the association between the men’s knowledge regarding the maternal health service utilization and maternal health in India using data from National Family Health Survey 2005-06. The indicator of maternal health used in the analysis is safe delivery. Binary and multinomial logistic regression are used established the said association. Males involvement coded into two ways and two categories viz father present at the time of ANC visit or not, and whether at any time during the pregnancy any health provider or health worker told them about the various sign of pregnancy complications or not.