Supply-side factors influencing demand for facility-based delivery in Tanzania: a multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving access to facility-based delivery care has the potential to reduce maternal and newborn deaths across settings. Yet, the access to a health facility for childbirth remains low especially in low-income settings. To inform evidence-based interventions, more evidence is needed especially accounting for demand- and supply-side factors influencing access to facility-based delivery care. We aimed to fill this knowledge gap using data from Tanzania.

Methods

We used data from a cross-sectional survey (conducted in January 2012) of 150 health facilities, 1494 patients and 2846 households with women who had given births in the last 12 months before the survey across 11 districts in three regions in Tanzania. The main outcome was the place of delivery (giving birth

SUBMITTER: Binyaruka P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10629065 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature