TITLE:
Does the Availability of Community Health Worker/Mobile-Health Van Unit within the Community Impacts Neonatal Survival?
AUTHORS:
Ajay Pandey, Dilip C. Nath, Richa Sharma
KEYWORDS:
Neonatal Deaths, Mother’s Literacy, Tetanus Toxid Injections
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Statistics,
Vol.7 No.5,
October
25,
2017
ABSTRACT: This study uses the data from the National Family Health Survey round-2.
Using hierarchical linear models the role of community level variables in predicting
neonatal deaths at individual level is analyzed. SAS sub-routine PROC GLIMMIX
is used for hierarchical linear modeling. Findings re-enforce the importance of
mother’s literacy and tetanus toxid vaccination during pregnancy in predicting
neonatal deaths at individual level. At community level, though the magnitude
of the presence of either a private doctor, or a visiting doctor, or a village
guide, or a traditional health attendant, or the presence of mobile health van
unit within community is in an expected direction, the effect is statistically
not significant. In order to capture true impact of community level
intervention of program success it is imperative that the large demographic
surveys should incorporate more and more community level indicators while
designing these surveys.