While communication components reflect the demand side of existing health care,
the service components represent the supply side of the same. In spite of the
fact that communication and service share a proportional relationship, the
actual mechanism behind the process is hardly understood in its totality. This
book endeavours to disentangle the complex web of the supply-demand framework
involving communication and service and management components of health care
with special focus on the mother and child. It has looked at the effects on
mother and child particularly when there is a resource crunch, where services
are not easily available due to poor access to service centres, unavailability
of