Summary:
Maternal mortality is still quite high in Bangladesh despite
decades of programmes and activities. Maternal health
care coverage depends on availability and utilization of
services . With trend of increase in urbanization there is
increasing demands for maternity care services .
The objective of the study was to assess present status of
utilization of the antenatal, childbirth, postnatal and
neonatal care services at urban setting.
This was a cross sectional descriptive study done during
August to December 2001 in the catchment area of randomly
selected ten health care centres run by partner NGOs of
Urban Primary Health Care Project and Dhaka City
Corporation in Dhaka Metropolitan city. A total 3,000
mothers with under one year child was selected randomly
from about 49,526 households and information were collected
by interviewer-administered structured questionnaire.