Spatial patterns of maternal and neonatal continuum of care use and its correlations with women's empowerment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The continuum of care (CoC) in maternal health refers to the continuity of individual reproductive health care across the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. The CoC is an indicator of the quality of maternal and newborn health outcomes and women's empowerment is crucial to improving maternal and neonatal health service access and utilisation.

Objective

To examine the spatial patterns of continuum of care use for maternal and neonatal health services and its correlation with women's empowerment.

Methods

We analysed data from the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys (EDHS) of 2011 and 2016. All women aged 15-49 who had live births in the preceding five years of the DHS surveys were included in the analysis. We measured the continuum of care us

SUBMITTER: Kibret GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11373502 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature