Poor Quality for Poor Women? Inequities in the Quality of Antenatal and Delivery Care in Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality of healthcare is an important determinant of future progress in global health. However, the distributional aspects of quality of care have received inadequate attention. We assessed whether high quality maternal care is equitably distributed by (1) mapping the quality of maternal care in facilities located in poorer versus wealthier areas of Kenya; and (2) comparing the quality of maternal care available to Kenyans in and not in poverty.

Methods

We assessed three measures of maternal care quality: facility infrastructure and clinical quality of antenatal care and delivery care, using indicators from the 2010 Kenya Service Provision Assessment (SPA), a standardized facility survey with direct observation of maternal care provision. We calculated poverty of

SUBMITTER: Sharma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5283741 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature