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Exploring the spatial distribution and regional differences of obstetric complications across India: Evidences based on NFHS- 4: 2015-16.

Shriya Bajaj, The University Of Sheffield
Rahul Jha, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai

Daily 800 women die worldwide due to complications from childbirth, the main cause of deaths in developing nations have been severe bleeding, hypertension, sepsis, unsafe abortion, and obstructed labour. Many studies have been done in India related to obstetric complications but there is a scarce of studies focused on the spatial aspect. Geographical information system in recent decades, have been popular and helps to know the pattern and trait at a regional level so that interventions can take place accordingly. The present study assesses and examines the spatial heterogeneity at the district level for different obstetric complications for the year 2015-16 based on National Family Health Survey, India. The study covered 699,686 ever-married women in the age group 15-49 years in India. The spatial estimation of the prevalence of obstetric complications was examined using GeoDa and ArcMap 10.3.1 The regions identified under different pregnancy complications were different. The pregnancy complications during pregnancy and after pregnancy were high in the areas of the Northern and Eastern regions of India. While complication during delivery was high in Northern and Southern India. The local spatial autocorrelation showed that the high-high regions of the pregnancy complication were located in the low prevalence regions (high-low).

Keywords: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Spatial analysis/regression

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  Presented in Session P18.