DHS WORKING PAPERS Continuum of Maternal Health Care and the Use of Postpartum Family Planning in Nepal Ramesh Babu Kafle Komal Prasad Dulal Krishna Prasad Pandey 2017 No. 133 DEMOGRAPHIC AND July 2017 HEALTH This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. SURVEYS Continuum of Maternal Health Care and the Use of Postpartum Family Planning in Nepal Ramesh B. Kafle1 Komal P. Dulal1 Krishna P. Pandey1 ICF Rockville, Maryland, USA July 2017 1Centre for Population and Development (CPAD), Purbanchal University, Biratnagar, Nepal Corresponding author: Ramesh B. Kafle, Centre for Population and Development (CPAD), Purbanchal University, Biratnagar, Nepal; email:
[email protected] Acknowledgments We appreciate the suggestions and comments provided by our two facilitators, Wenjuan Wang and Shireen Assaf, during the preparation of this paper since the first workshop held in Bangkok. Their suggestions obviously deepened our understanding of the issues and prompted us to make the analysis more precise and comprehensive. We also thank two other co-facilitators, Bwalya Bupe Bwalya and Mulenga C. Mulenga, for their kind cooperation during the workshop. We acknowledge Sarah Staveteig for comments and suggestions on this paper. We also thank all the participants of the 2017 DHS Fellows Workshop for their suggestions during the presentations in Bangkok and Bali. We are thankful to USAID for providing us modest financial support and ICF for providing technical assistance in preparation of this paper. We did not encounter any conflict of interest while preparing this paper. Editor: Bryant Robey Document Production: Joan Wardell The DHS Working Papers series is a prepublication series of papers reporting on research in progress that is based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data.