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Abstract
The pattern and determinants of maternal service utilization were studied in a rural Nigerian community. The study sample consisted of 488 randomly selected women who had a childbirth or an abortion between May 1987 and September 1989. Although 93% registered for prenatal care in a health care institution, only 51% delivered in a health institution while 49% delivered at home mainly under the care of traditional birth attendants. Factors found to be most consistently associated with the use of health institutions for delivery were maternal education and occupation, religion, and occupation of the husband. Maternal age, parity and marital status and place of the residence were not significantly associated with the choice between home and institutional delivery. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the odds ratio and to quantify the weight of these independent variables found to be significantly associated with the place of delivery as the outcome variable.Entities:
Keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Geographic Factors; Health; Health Services; Health Surveys; Interdisciplinary Studies; Logistic Model; Marriage; Marriage Patterns; Maternal Health Services; Maternal-child Health Services; Mathematical Model; Measurement; Models, Theoretical; Nigeria; Nuptiality; Polygyny; Population; Population Characteristics; Prenatal Care; Prevalence; Primary Health Care; Religion; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Rural Population; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution; Western Africa
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Year: 1994 PMID： 7932482 DOI： 10.1177/146642409411400304
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J R Soc Health ISSN： 0264-0325