Abstract
Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) was one of priority goal among millennium
development goals of United Nations till 2015. Which is again considered as
a priority goal among sustainable development goals set by United Nations
which are supposed to be achieved until 2030. As per these goals MMR
should be minimized at the level of 71deaths among 100,000 live births
during a specific time period. However, Sindh government couldn’t achieve
the target of 2015, instead of running Mother New born and Child Health
(MNCH) program at grass-roots level. Though government has appointing
number of lady health visitors and workers but still there is need of more to
cover all population of rural areas. It was found during study that available
maternal health workers in rural areas are not enough in number and quality
to reduce maternal mortality ratio. Majority of women are declared with
nutritional deficiencies by local maternal health workers. Ratio of maternal
mortalities due to malnutrition is always higher as also reported in other
research studies. This study aims to find out the sociological barriers to
reduce maternal mortality ratio in rural areas, such as, issue of malnutrition
among women. Study has taken into account key socio-cultural factor/
variable effecting on maternal mortality. For that purpose, mixed methods
of data collection were used, for quantitative data 385 in depth interviews
were conducted with mothers and 45 key informant interviews were
conducted with maternal health workers, in different rural areas of
Hyderabad division. For qualitative data structured observations were
conducted with three women from three different topographic areas of Sindh
(Coastal belt, dry hilly area, barrage area).
Sayed Sada Hussain Shah, Dr. Aijaz Ali Wassan, Sadaf Saeed, Lubna Sohail. (2018) Maternal Mortality Ratio And Mal-nutrition Among Women In Rural Communities Of Hyderabad Division; A Sociological Analysis, The Women - Annual Research Journal of Gender Studies, Volume-10, Issue-1.
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