India Abdullah Baqui DrPh at the School of Public Health; Department of International Health
Uttar Pradesh is one of the eight less developed EAG states of India, which constitute 32% of the total urban population and are home to approximately 43% of India’s urban poor (Census, 2001). Unlike the rest of India, gains in infant survival in Uttar Pradesh have stagnated since the mid 1990s. The overall aim of the project is to improve the health status of mothers, neonates, and children who live in the urban slum areas of Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh, by developing and evaluating effective, affordable, scalable, and sustainable systems of delivering a package of Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Reproductive Health (MNCRH) services to the urban poor. Specifically this project will conduct formative research that will generate information to be used in the design of intervention models, as well as provide baseline measures. It will (i) characterize and define the vulnerable populations in Meerut, (ii) determine the coverage and availability of services that are provided by primary, secondary and tertiary facilities in Meerut and (iii) assess maternal recognition and interpretation of illness in neonates and infants, current preventive and curative care-seeking and care-giving practices within and outside the home, for women, newborn and infants, and identification of barriers to the adequate provision of care for the sick newborn.
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Savitha Subramanian
