Exploring status and determinants of prenatal and postnatal visits in western China: in the background of the new health system reform.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prenatal and postnatal visits are two effective interventions for protection and promotion of maternal health by reducing maternal mortality and improving the quality of birth. There is limited nationally representative data regarding the changes of prenatal and postnatal visits since the latest health system reform initiated in 2009 in Shaanxi, China. The aim of this study was to explore the current status and determinants of prenatal and postnatal visits in the background of new health system reform.

Methods

Data were drawn from two waves of National Health Service Surveys in Shaanxi Province which were conducted prior and post the health system reform in 2008 and 2013, respectively. A concentration index was employed to measure the degree of income-related ineq

SUBMITTER: Fan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5520235 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature