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Item Maternal health care practice and education Status of rai women (A case study of rai community in chhinamakhu Vdc,Bhojpur district)(Department of population studies, 2010) rai, Kishu naniThis study on "Maternal health care practice and education status inRai community in Chhinamakhu VDC, Bhojpur" was carried out by usingthe primary data collected in the field survey. The filed survey coveredselected wards 2 and 9 of Chhinamakhu VDC of Bhojpur and 110 marriedwomen aged 15-49 years were selected under the purposive sampling. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationshipbetween maternal health care practices and educational status in Raicommunity. The relationship between two or more variables has beenexamined through cross tabulation. The main determinant for this research is antenatal check-ups, TTinjection, receiving iron tablets, delivery assistance, use of delivery kit andpostnatal check-ups. The study included 512 populations from 110 households whichconsisted 47.9 percent males and 52.1 percent females. The study showsthat most of the households were involved in agriculture. In the study, 54.5 percent respondents were literate. Higherpercentages of respondents were in the age group 25-29 years. The studyshows that 53.6 percent respondentshave knowledge about antenatal care. According to study, 86.4 percent respondents received ANC serviceand higher percent of respondents received ANC from the health post. In thestudy 83 percent literate respondents received ANC services. In the study, 51.8 percent respondents received TT injection, 52.7percent have taken iron tablets. In the study 79.1 percent respondentsdelivered their babies at home, 20 percent respondents used clean deliverykit. In the study area, 67.3 percent respondents received postnatal careservices and higher percentages (86.5%) of respondents received postnatalcare from health post. This study found a strong positive relationship between education andmaternal health care practices. There was significant relationship betweenreceiving iron tablets, TT injection and age at marriage, level of education ofrespondents.Item Maternal Health Care practice and Educational Status of Women (A Case Study Of Manpur Vdc, Dang District)(Department of population studies, 2010) Pokhrel, Bharat KumarThe study has been designed to determine "Maternal health care practice andeducational status," Manpur VDC of Dang District. Maternal health is the issue ofhuman rights and women's life security. There are various difficulties for achievingthe goal to enhance the overall development of women's health and other aspects oftheir life.Women yet have to face so many social and cultural exploitation. Within theground reality of culture, economic and social disparities, the study has attempted toidentify the situation of women with aspect to maternal health care practice andeducational status. The study is based on primary data obtained from thefield survey.This study mainly has explored the following information. In comparison to the national average, the literacy rate of women is foundbetter but the proportion of women completing higher educationissignificant. Majority of women are engagedin agriculture occupation. A large proportion of women (76%) in the study area were married before theage of 20 years. A large proportion of women (65%) of the study area had taken antenatal careservice,on the other hand, delivery and postnatal care are also better. This study is a symbol of improvement over the past situation, though it is notcompared with the past events. There are various significant improvements in the pastand the trend is positive, which leads to better situation, but there are many gaps anddifficulties to overcome. For example, the main aspects of the study inmaternalhealth care practice is obviously low and poor whichshouldbe strengthened withnecessary facilities.In conclusion, it can be stated that higher status of maternity careis the result of better social, economic, cultural and political settings. All of thementioned factors should play an optimum role honestly in order to strength thematernal health service.