International Health
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 71-77 , September 2009

Tracing pathways from antenatal to delivery care for women in Mumbai, India: cross-sectional study of maternity in low-income areas

  • Neena Shah More

      Affiliations

    • Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Urban Health Centre, Chota Sion Hospital, 60 Feet Road, Shahunagar, Dharavi, Mumbai 400017, Maharashtra, India
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  • Glyn Alcock

      Affiliations

    • UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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  • Ujwala Bapat

      Affiliations

    • Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Urban Health Centre, Chota Sion Hospital, 60 Feet Road, Shahunagar, Dharavi, Mumbai 400017, Maharashtra, India
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  • Sushmita Das

      Affiliations

    • Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Urban Health Centre, Chota Sion Hospital, 60 Feet Road, Shahunagar, Dharavi, Mumbai 400017, Maharashtra, India
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  • Wasundhara Joshi

      Affiliations

    • Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Urban Health Centre, Chota Sion Hospital, 60 Feet Road, Shahunagar, Dharavi, Mumbai 400017, Maharashtra, India
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  • David Osrin

      Affiliations

    • UCL Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 20 7905 2122 fax: +44 20 7404 2062.

Received 7 February 2009 ,Revised 17 February 2009 ,Accepted 24 February 2009.

  • Image Result

    Traffic of clients between public and private sectors for antenatal care, registration and institutional delivery in Mumbai, India. Light grey: clients who began antenatal care in the public sector. D

    Traffic of clients between public and private sectors for antenatal care, registration and institutional delivery in Mumbai, India. Light grey: clients who began antenatal care in the public sector. Dark grey: clients who began in the private sector. Dotted line: notional divide between public and private sectors. The breadth of each path is proportional to the number of clients.

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    Progress of clients between types of public sector institution from registration to delivery in Mumbai, India. The breadth of each path is proportional to the number of clients. Urban health centre cl

    Progress of clients between types of public sector institution from registration to delivery in Mumbai, India. The breadth of each path is proportional to the number of clients. Urban health centre clients are omitted due to small numbers. Flows in which fewer than 25 women were involved are not included: unregistered to institutional delivery, tertiary to general hospital, tertiary hospital to maternity home, general hospital to maternity home.

PII: S1876-3413(09)00006-0

doi: 10.1016/j.inhe.2009.02.004

International Health
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 71-77 , September 2009