Ujwala Bapat

Biographic Data

ID6651328
NAMEUjwala Bapat
GIVEN NAMESUjwala
FAMILY NAMEBapat
SIGNATUREBAPAT U
AFFILIATIONSSociety for Nutrition Education and Health Action
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Factors associated with women’s healthcare decision-making during and after pregnancy in urban slums in Mumbai, India

    Open AccessNeha Batura, Stavros Poupakis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Exclusion of women from maternal healthcare decision-making threatens the effectiveness of health interventions. Factors such as age, employment, education, and household size need to be considered when designing health interventions targeting new mothers living in challenging conditions, such as urban slums in low- and middle-income countries

  • Intimate partner violence against women during and after pregnancy

    Open AccessSushmita Das, Ujwala Bapat et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    One in seven women suffered IPV during or shortly after pregnancy. The elements of the violent milieu are mutually reinforcing and need to be taken into account collectively in responding to both individual cases and framing public health initiatives

  • Maternal and neonatal health expenditure in mumbai slums (India)

    Open AccessJolene Skordis-Worrall, Noemi Pace et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    High expenditure as a proportion of household resources should alert policymakers to the burden of maternal spending in this context. Differences in informal payments, significantly regressive indirect spending and the use of savings versus wages to finance spending, all highlight the heavier burden borne by the most poor. If a policy objective is to increase institutional deliveries without forcing households deeper into poverty, these inequitie…

  • A Rapid Assessment Scorecard to Identify Informal Settlements at Higher Maternal and Child Health Risk in Mumbai

    Open AccessDavid Osrin, Sushmita Das et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2011Cited by: 2References: 1

    The communities who live in urban informal settlements are diverse, as are their environmental conditions. Characteristics include inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poor quality of housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status. Interventions to improve health should be equity-driven and target those at higher risk, but it is not clear how to prioritise informal settlements for health action. In implementing a maternal and c…

  • Spoilt for choice? Cross-sectional study of care-seeking for health problems during pregnancy in Mumbai slums

    Open AccessNeena Shah More, Glyn Alcock et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2010

    This study considers care-seeking patterns for maternal morbidity in Mumbai's slums. Our objectives were to document women's self-reported symptoms and care-seeking, and to quantify their choice of health provider, care-seeking delays and referrals between providers. The hypothesis that care-seeking sites for maternal morbidity mirror those used for antenatal care was also tested. We analysed data for 10,754 births in 48 slum areas and interviewe…

  • Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes

    Open AccessNeena Shah More, Ujwala Bapat et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2009

    Analyses of this type have usually been applied across the population spectrum from richest to poorest, and we were struck by the regularly stepped picture of inequalities within the urban poor, a group that might inadvertently be considered relatively homogeneous. The poorest slum residents are more dependent upon public sector health care, but the regular progression towards the private sector raises questions about its quality and regulation. …