Socioeconomic inequalities in the uptake of postpartum care at home across Dutch neighbourhoods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postpartum care focuses on prevention of health problems by performing medical check-ups and through enhancing maternal empowerment, the parent-infant interaction and knowledge about mother's own health and that of her newborn. We aimed to investigate whether there was significant clustering within neighbourhoods regarding the uptake of postpartum care and to what extent neighbourhood-level differences are explained by individual socio-demographic factors, pregnancy-related factors and neighbourhood-level determinants (i.e. deprivation and urbanization).

Methods

A nationwide population-based observational study was carried out using linked routinely collected healthcare data from appropriate-for-gestational-age weight live-born term singleton deliveries (2015-18)

SUBMITTER: Daalderop LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11430907 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature