A Comparative Analysis of the Determinants of Seeking Prenatal Health Care in Urban and Rural Areas of Togo
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Date
2013-07
Authors
Johnson, Ablamba
Issifou, Alima
Homevoh, Etsri
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Publisher
AERC
Abstract
A country may have invested significantly in essential health facilities in order to supply
goods and services related to reproductive health, but still see the demand for prenatal
health care influenced by equally important economic and social factors. The aim of the
present study was to identify the economic and social factors that would determine the
probability of a pregnant woman choosing one type of prenatal health care over another
and to specifically measure the effects of the variables of living standards on seeking
this care. The study used a multinomial logit model to analyze data collected during the
2006 Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS-3) survey. From the main results, the
following observations could be made: (i) pregnant women without formal education
went for prenatal consultations less frequently than those with formal education; (ii)
the higher the wealth index was for the household in which the pregnant woman lived,
the more likely that she would seek prenatal care from trained medical staff; (iii) the
pregnant woman’s level of formal education, her age, the size of the household she lived
in, the household’s wealth index, the number of children below five years living in the
household, the cost of prenatal consultations at public health facilities, and the quality of
care these offered, were all found to have a statistically significant effect on the pregnant
woman’s choice to seek prenatal care from a modern health facility or not.
Description
RG 966 .T6 J64 2013
Keywords
Prenatal Care - Social aspects - Togo , Prenatal Care - Economics aspect - Togo , Prenatal Care - Economic aspects