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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU 2016; 06(04): 79-83
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1708680
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Factors Responsible For Low Access and Utilization of Janani Sureksh Yaojan (Scheme for Institutional Delivery) Among Rural Women: A Case of South Karnataka - India

D.C. Nanjunda
1   Faculty, Centre for Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, University of Mysore, Mysore - 06, India
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Abstract

This paper examines the access and low utilization ofJanani Sureksh Yaojan(JSY) in the selected rural parts of south Karnataka at the overall level and also separately for the SCs women and identifies crucial factors that hinder and facilitate access to the scheme and the factors that are play crucial role in theunderutilization of the health servicesand caste issues SC women beneficiaries. This paper predominantlyemphasis on the caste discrimination in terms of accessing the public health services and in the end, enlists all the likely measures to combat this discrimination. This study has been conducted in oneof the backward district of the sate Chamaraj nagar –south India. Thisarticle concludes that there are an assortment of factors causing low access and utilization of JSY service including the caste and other factors. It is further ascertain in that JSY is not just about promoting institutional deliveries rather programme objectives for diminution of maternal mortality and morbidity can be achieved when particularly rural women arefacilitating to receivethe quality delivery and post-partum care services.

Keywords

JSY - Health - discrimination - scheme - maternal mortality


Publication History

Received: 04 September 2016

Accepted: 04 November 2016

Article published online:
22 April 2020

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