What does quality of care mean for maternal health providers from two vulnerable states of India? Case study of Bihar and Jharkhand

摘要

BackgroundQuality instillation has its own challenges, facilitators and barriers in various settings. This paper focuses on exploration of quality components related to practices, health system challenges and quality enablers from providers’ perspectives with a focus on maternal health studied through a pilot research conducted in 2012–2013 in two states of India—Bihar and Jharkhand—with relatively poor indicators for maternal health.