"We are in a state of emergency as far as maternal services are concerned," Dr. Sentumbwe-Mugisa said.
Women with higher incomes were more likely to receive specified maternal services than their counterparts.
Furthermore, the married pregnant woman uses modern maternal services more than the single woman.
The policy was introduced with the view that, the cost of maternal services was serving as a hindrance to utilization.
Significant measures in terms of neonatal and maternal services have recently been taken in Iran [5],[6].
The OOPE and CHS are high for maternal services in many developing countries including India [7, 8].
Women's satisfaction with maternal services is poorly understood in many developing countries, including Cambodia in South East Asia.
However, in case women availed all three maternal services from private health center in post NHM period, they are more likely to incur CHS.
A statistically significant spatial lag coefficient would suggest that even when all of the usual explanatory variables are included in the regression model, spatial autocorrelation is still present and therefore, women's use of maternal services in one village is correlated with the use of maternal services of other women in neighbouring villages.
Jafarery and Korejo in their study on mothers who were brought – in- dead showed that the causes of delay were economic, socio-cultural factors and inadequate maternal services (Jafarery and Korejo 1995).
I hadn't won any awards and my kids hadn't expressed any newfound appreciation of my maternal services.
