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  CHAPTER I   THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE   Background of the Study The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seek to reduce the under-5 child mortality by two thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015, these goals known as MDG 4 and MDG 5 respectively (UN,2011).   These goals become critical targets for Developing countries which prioritized interventions and national healthspending.Yet meeting MDGs 4 and 5 was remains to be challenging: mortality rates aredecreasing, but not rapidly enough to meet the MDGs in most countries (Hogan et al.,2010; Rajaratman et al.,2010). In many low-income settings with high burden of maternal deaths, few women use facilities for birth, often choosing a higher risk birth athome, often without professional medical assistance.WHO (2010) stated it was globally recognized that one of the main challenges to achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of a global reduction of matern...

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT   “There are times when silence speaks so much more loudly than words of praise to only as good as belittle a person, whose words do not express, but only put a veneer over true feelings, which are gratitude at this point of time” We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our adviser Mr. Jose D. Delas Peñas for his vital support, guidance and encouragement. Without his presence, this thesis would not be successful. Your guidance and supervision is highly appreciated in all the time. We could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for our research study. We would also like to express our gratitude to the staff of the MEDINA IPIL COLLEGE INCORPORATED for their constructive and support. We also express our thankful to the Barangay Chairman for given with us the opportunity to gathered data and also to the respondents for the support and willingness to spend some times with us to fill in the questionnaire. We thank my fellow ...