study of socio-economic factors affecting mother and child health in Faisalabad city

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the socio-economic factors affecting mother and child health in Faisalabad city. One of the neglected colonies i.e., Gulzar Colony, was selected for data collection. Over all 993 married females were interviewed after a door to door survey. It was found in the present study that literacy level had a strong relationship both with mother vaccination and infant vaccination. Females, whose husbands were educated and whose annual income was high, had higher percentage of vaccination of themselves and their babies. As far as occupation of mother was concerned, it did not prove to be a good indicator