Abstract: While maternal and child mortality in India is widely discussed and analysed subject, components of health system, historical approach of policy development etc., remain largely overlooked. The review article provides comprehensive insight of maternal and child health and also a holistic view of the health system components mainly associated with maternal and child health. Maternal and child health is discussed in terms of mortality rates and health systems is discussed based on 6 basic building blocks defined by World Health Organization (WHO); health infrastructure, health workforce, health information system, essential medicines and health finance. The article is based on information and data from national health surveys (NFHS, SRS, DLHS), peer reviewed research papers, government reports etc. Data was analysed at temporal as well as geographical scale to understand and explore the trends and state wise disparity in maternal and child health care status, services, infrastructure and finance in India.
Keywords: Maternal and Child health, Health system, spatial variation, India.
Title: A historical review and current perspective of Maternal and Child health in India
Author: Kranti S. Vora, Parth A. Tailor, Shahin Saiyed, Susanna Abraham Cottagiri
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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