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Neha Adsul
Neha Adsul is a Senior Research Fellow at the Meta Research and Evidence Synthesis Unit (MRES) at the George Institute for Global Health (TGI). Before her appointment with TGI, she was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay. She holds an MPH, and an MPhil and PhD in Health Systems Management from TISS.
Her research interests include health policy research, qualitative and mixed research methodologies, reproductive and child health and nutrition, and health professionals’ migration.
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Access to antenatal care and its influence on children’s cognitive development
Research has shown that maternal health affects later-life outcomes of children. Using data from the Young Lives survey in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this article shows that antenatal care has an impact on the cognitive scores of children during mid-childhood, with scores increasing if mothers had between five and eight antenatal visits, with significant variations by caste. Based on this finding, the authors suggest that the government’s current mandate of four minimum antenatal visits is worth rethinking.
