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Abstract
Poor child health care and women status are two major problems of the society. Worldwide researches have suggested women higher level of autonomy has a significant impact on child health care practices. The current study aims of estimate the impact of women autonomy on under-five children in the slums of English Bazar municipality of Malda district of West Bengal, India. The work is based on primary data collected from the slums of English Bazar municipality. Total 300 hundred mother and under-five child pairs have taken as sample. Analysis has done by descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. Status of the autonomy of the women was low for the majority of the women. Even a huge number of child also recorded as not received basic child health care practices. Most importantly the regression analysis suggests women higher level of autonomy has positive association with many of the child care practices.