Barriers to timely and adequate antenatal care: a systematic review of socioeconomic, cultural, psychosocial, and health-system factors across high and low resource settings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Significant disparities remain in prenatal care utilization across countries, the specific socioeconomic and systemic factors contributing to these gaps have not been consistently synthesized. This review evaluates the gap by comparing barriers to timely and adequate prenatal care between high and low resource settings by focusing on the factors affecting prenatal service utilization through socioeconomic status and geography cultural barriers and system-related factors.

Methodology

The systematic review explored databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect. The recent studies from 2014 up to 2024 underwent evaluation based on Boolean operators combined with indexed keywords. Eligible studies included quantitative study design

SUBMITTER: Ali ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12849346 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature