Ambarish Kumar Rai

Maternal & Child Health Services Utilization Among Adolescent in Nepal: a Pathway to Improve Adolescent Mother and Newborn Health Ambarish Kumar Rai

In the adolescent, pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of maternal death due to the early childbearing in developing countries. Adolescents in Nepal have been hit hard by problems occurring during this period and the situation is mostly because many had lack of adequate knowledge & understanding of the reproductive process. Access to health services in Nepal is also limited due to remote mountainous areas, poor infrastructure, lack of sufficient and qualified health personnel, and socio-cultural. The book made an effort to identify most prominent variables of adolescent (15-19 yrs.) that played the significant role for poor performance in utilization of MCH services over the country, and also tried to analyse how the role of variables changed over time as they become more aware, more educated and more exposed towards their own reproductive rights. Since the death rate in this age group is relatively low the adolescents are considered to be healthy, however, it is a misleading measure of adolescent health. This is the foremost reason to study about the health seeking behaviour of this age group and their behaviour approach regarding health seeking.